empathy accounts right-hand information box has a light background but white text when using a dark theme

Bug #565630 reported by Eemil Lagerspetz
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
empathy (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: empathy

In empathy in the accounts dialog, the area that shows the status of an account, such as "connecting", "available", "disconnected" etc. has a changing background colour. This is red when disconnected, light yellow when available, etc. However, the foreground colour has not been specified. This means that with dark themes that have a light foreground colour, text in this area is unreadable.

To reproduce:
1. Start Empathy and go to Accounts
2. In the Ubuntu Preferences menu, go to Appearance and switch to a dark theme, for example DarkRoom or Darklooks.
3. Notice the unreadable text in empathy on the top right of the Accounts window.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: empathy 2.30.0.1-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-20.29-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-20-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: vboxnetadp vboxnetflt vboxdrv ppdev binfmt_misc snd_emu10k1_synth snd_emux_synth snd_seq_virmidi snd_seq_midi_emul snd_emu10k1 snd_ac97_codec ac97_bus snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm joydev snd_page_alloc snd_util_mem snd_hwdep snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi snd_rawmidi snd_seq_midi_event analog snd_seq coretemp snd_timer snd_seq_device snd emu10k1_gp fbcon tileblit font bitblit softcursor asus_atk0110 psmouse serio_raw lp gameport soundcore nvidia vga16fb vgastate intel_agp parport raid10 raid456 async_raid6_recov async_pq raid6_pq async_xor xor async_memcpy async_tx raid1 raid0 multipath usbhid hid pata_marvell ahci linear atl1e
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Apr 18 00:56:35 2010
SourcePackage: empathy

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Eemil Lagerspetz (eemil-lagerspetz) wrote :
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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

Thanks for taking time to report this bug and helping to make ubuntu better. Can you please attach a screenshot and also please tell which package should I install to get those themes.

Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
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Eemil Lagerspetz (eemil-lagerspetz) wrote :

dpkg -S says:
human-theme: /usr/share/themes/DarkRoom
Screenshot attached.

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

this bug is fixed in Maverick

Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
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Eemil Lagerspetz (eemil-lagerspetz) wrote :

Sorry, It seems that it's not fixed.
I forgot to mention that the one that is unreadable is when you look at an "Available" account. The red and orange backgrounds are OK. So, to reproduce this:
0. Use a dark theme (Darklooks, darkroom, murrine wise dark, ... ) with white foreground text
1. Open empathy accounts
2. Create an IRC account for example on irc.freenode.net
3. Login with it so that it becomes available
4. Notice the light yellow background and that the text on the right hand side is unreadable.

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