inappropriate color theme in the contact list
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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empathy (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
A slight usability issue, certainly because of the default empathy color theme. On the contact list, when using the drop-dowm menu to set your status ("Available", "Busy"...), the text color is dark grey on a black background. Unless you are lucky to use a monitor with strong backlight, this is obviously not the wisest choice for readability. Hoovering the menu entries with the mouse does reveal the text better (orange background with white text) but this is not intuitive at first.
Proposed solution :
Instead, the color layout in the drop-down menu of the contact list should be set to white font on dark background as it is for the Me Menu under the mail icon. One might argue that people are more likely to use the Me Menu instead of the contact list. Still, this fix will bring a little more consistancy between all the available options for the user.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: empathy 3.4.2.3-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-29-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu12
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Aug 16 10:06:40 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: empathy
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.