Colour of font on panel and desktop should be customisable

[Andy.hall06]

Right now, the colour of the fonts on the Desktop icons and panel changes at random (often to contrast with panel background colour/theme/wallpaper) but it does not always get it right. Especially if the theme or wallpaper has different colours in different areas.

Both of these should be easily customisable.

[Lightbreeze (nedhoy-gmail)]

A 'paper cut' a a minor usability bug likely to be encountered by an average user the first day using a new installation of Ubuntu 9.10

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the themes shipped with Ubuntu don't have any problem with the fonts in the panel. I think that limits the exposure of this bug enough for it not to qualify as valid for "One Hundred Paper Cuts" project , which tries to focus on minor issues found in vanilla Ubuntu 9.10 and not feature-requests or bugs limited to relatively small user populations.

For your information: Text in the panel uses the same font style as 'Application font' found in System > Preferences > Appearance > Fonts. For the colour, maybe customising the panel background would work for you?

[Andy.hall06 (andrew-hall06)]

Thanks for the clarification.
Do you recommend that I shift this to a more general desktop/GNOME section or withdraw it?
How do I withdraw a bug?

Thank you very much

[Vish (vish)]

You can attach more details and assign this same bug to the affected packages.
Don't worry though, This bug has been marked as "invalid" ONLY in the papercuts project.

For resolution of the bug, kindly identify the projects affected and assign the bug to that project, otherwise the devs of the concerned project might not be notified of this problem. For more about finding the right package> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage.

[Andy.hall06 (andrew-hall06)]

I am sorry for the question but I am new here (a week ago I had no idea what bugzilla, launchpad etc were),

I think the right package would be Nautilus (which renders the desktop icons and I guess their fonts too) or GNOME, both of which are not on launchpad right? They have their own tracking system at bugzilla? Yet I see many GNOME, Nautilus bugs filed here.

Sorry just a little confused. :D
Still trying to figure out what the organisational structure and hierarchy is.

Should I now file this bug again on launchpad with the affects field as "GNOME/Nautilus" as I've seen in some places or should I go over to bugzilla and file it with them?

Thank you very much for you help.

P.S I've already taken the Launchpad tour and read the guide but could not find anything about GNOME here.

[Lightbreeze (nedhoy-gmail)]

Press 'Also effects distribution' select 'Ubuntu' and type the name of the package. This will report the bug against that package in Ubuntu.

If you could file this bug upstream in the GNOME bugzilla and then here in Launchpad press 'Also effects project' > nautilus > press 'continue' and then paste the url of the bug you have submitted upstream, that would be really helpful - thanks!

Of course, remember to search for duplicates first, thanks!

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

that's a gtk+ issue and well known upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=391179