Panes in Thunderbird and Firefox unreadable

[Wolf Rogner]

Arc-darc theme for budgie provides a comforting color scheme. However fonts and background colors in thunderbird (HTML messages) and firefox (input fields, text entries) are hard to read as the bgcolor and fgcolor differ only slightly (dark blue to dark gray).

Is there a way to fix this? (I tried to work myself through the css file but did not find any indication which element is responsible)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.04
Package: arc-theme 20170302-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-24.28-generic 4.10.15
Uname: Linux 4.10.0-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.4-0ubuntu4.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Budgie:GNOME
Date: Wed Jun 21 23:24:03 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-05-25 (27 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Budgie 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: arc-theme
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Alberto Donato (ack)]

I have the same behavior in Bionic

[fossfreedom (fossfreedom)]

Known issue upstream. It is a years old Firefox issue - workaround as described here:

https://github.com/NicoHood/arc-theme/issues/41

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

Hello Wolf,
Thank you for submitting this bug and reporting a problem with foreground and background colors in Thunderbird and Firefox. You made this bug report some time ago and Ubuntu, Firefox and Thunderbird has been updated since then.

Could you confirm that this is no longer a problem and that we can close the ticket?
If it is still a problem, are you still interested in finding a solution to this bug?
If you are, could you let us know and, run the following (only once):
apport-collect 1699605
and upload the updated logs and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

Thank you again for helping make Ubuntu, Firefox and Thunderbird better.
G

[Wolf Rogner (war-rsb)]

Hi G,
this bug has been eliminated on my computer a long time ago (I did a fresh install for 18.04 as well)

It seems as Alberto Donato (ack) has this issue still.

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

Hi Alberto,
I have subscribed you to this ticket so we can contact you regarding your report (comment #3 above).

Wolf says the issue is fixed on their computer.
How about your computer?
Can we close this ticket?
Thanks
G

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

Thanks for the update, Wolf. I have checked with Alberto to see if he still has the issue.
Have a great day!
:)
G

[Alberto Donato (ack)]

Hi G,
yes, I still see this issue on Disco with chromium and dark theme (this was a fresh install as well).

I'll try Eoan soon to see if it still happens there too.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Alberto, this issue was reported against firefox and thunderbird, not chromium.
The chromium issue is most likely a separate one, would you mind filing a separate bug for it at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+filebug ?

[Alberto Donato (ack)]

Hi Olivier, I already did back when I noticed: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1824191