Ubuntu
light-themes package

Black-on-black text with e-mail notifications in Pidgin when using Ambiance theme

Bug #546367 reported by Tesselode on 2010-03-24

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #532508: Low contrast in pidgin message inbox status bar with Radiance. Edit Remove

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	light-themes (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: pidgin

When using the Ambiance theme, the background of the e-mail notifications is black, and so is the text. That makes it pretty unreadable.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Mar 24 16:41:50 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta i386 (20100318)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: pidgin 1:2.6.6-1ubuntu4
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-17.26-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
SourcePackage: pidgin
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-17-generic i686
XsessionErrors: (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:4046): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed

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Tesselode (phoenixawm-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2010-03-24:

Dependencies.txt Edit (5.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (58.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (776 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Tesselode (phoenixawm-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2010-03-24:

That thing at the top is the e-mail notification. Edit (53.6 KiB, image/png)

Rocko (rockorequin) on 2010-03-28

Changed in pidgin (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

Guillaume Pascal (guigui14100-deactivatedaccount) on 2010-03-28

affects:

pidgin (Ubuntu) → light-themes (Ubuntu)

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Rocko (rockorequin) wrote on 2010-03-28:

Screenshot-Buddy List.png Edit (2.6 KiB, image/png)

My screenshot is even worse! The text is dark grey and all fuzzy.

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Vish (vish) wrote on 2010-04-04:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 532508, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.