Poor choice of per-Author colors (Collaborate)

[gpk]

Binary package hint: abiword

When a Abicollab shared document is being viewed, Abiword chooses colors for other authors that are light and relatively hard to read. They don't give a lot of contrast if the letters are small, if you have a laptop in bright lights, or if you need new glasses.

The solution is to choose darker colors to mark the author. That may make it slightly harder to tell who is who, but identifying the author is almost always less important than reading the text.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: abiword 2.8.6-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-23.37-generic 2.6.35.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-23-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Nov 12 22:06:54 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Beta amd64 (20100901.1)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: abiword

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here.

This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at: http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12944

Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!