Chat options almost invisible

[Jon Loldrup]

The chat menu in Ubuntus top panel shows some options for status for chat-availability:
Available, away, busy, invisible, offline
It shows these options both when one is logged in and one isn't logged in. In the latter case they are written with a font color that is very much like the dark gray background color of the default ubuntu 10.10 theme. This makes it very hard to read them.

If they are not intended for reading (when the user isn't logged in), shouldn't they then be removed completely when the user isn't logged in? Or be replaced with "You are not logged into any chat-service" written in a more readable color?

I'm using ubuntu 10.10 daily build from 2. september 2010

(side note: Actually I've seen the same problem with almost identical colors in the Skype menu when clicking the Skype-icon in the Ubuntu top bar (when Skype is installed, that is..) - just in this case, it was the _active_ menu options that was hard to read. Thats even more critical)

[Jon Loldrup (loldrup)]

Screenshot attached.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

If you don't have any chat accounts set up, the items should not be present at all.

If you do have any chat accounts set up, the items should be available regardless of whether you are logged in.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

This is a combination of bug 617192 ("Disabled menu items unreadable") and bug 550824 ("Once status is set to offline the me menu becomes disabled so can't be used to go online").

[Jon Loldrup (loldrup)]

On 7 September 2010 12:31, Matthew Paul Thomas <email address hidden> wrote:

> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 550824 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/550824
>
> If you don't have any chat accounts set up, the items should not be
> present at all.
>
> If you do have any chat accounts set up, the items should be available
> regardless of whether you are logged in.
>

I had a chat account set up, but couldn't chat (I should investigate that
separately).