"Ubuntu" style should use theme colors when possible.

[Dave Ahlswede]

Binary package hint: empathy

Currently as of Lucid, the "Ubuntu" theme for Empathy uses the same colors, regardless of the current theme. This looks jarring, especially when the user is using a light-on-dark theme, or a theme with a color other than white for input boxes.

If it's not possible to derive sensible colors for all the elements from the GTK theme, it would help if at least the background behind the text bubbles could be colored to match the current theme.

[Abhijit Navale (abhi-navale)]

Thanks for taking time to report this bug and helping to make ubuntu better. Can you please attach a screenshot of the situation.

[Dave Ahlswede (mightyquinn)]

Attached are four screenshots to illustrate, one illustrating the Ubuntu style ,which does not adapt to theme colors, and one illustrating the Classic style that does. The first set are using the Nodoka-Midnight light-on-dark GTK theme, and the second is using a GTK Theme of my own creation that uses dark-on-light, but with non-white input boxes

Note how the text entry areas at the bottom (and all similar widgets in the theme) are a non-white color, but the message history area is always white in the Ubuntu chat style, which makes it not integrate well to these GTK themes.