cpufreq applet black-on-black text not visible in ambiance theme

[Steve Magoun]

Binary package hint: gnome-applets

I added the CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor panel applet on 10.10 desktop. The default configuration of the applet is to show 'Graphic and Text'. The text is not visible with the default Ambiance theme, it's black text on a dark gray background. The seems to render properly when I switch to the Radiance theme, which uses a light background. Other applets such as the date/time applet don't seem to have this problem. I expected the cpufreq applet to use light text when rendered on the dark background.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: gnome-applets-data 2.30.0-3ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.34-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Oct 13 14:16:12 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-applets

[Stefano Angeleri (weltall)]

confirming I've the same issue:
http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/7617/blacktext.png

[John S. Gruber (jsjgruber)]

Please see bug #640096 for things to try.