Some text in intrepid's new default theme is unreadable

[Michael Monreal]

Some text in the new theme is not very well readable, namely:

* text inside of progress bars

* text on nautilus special widgets

See the screenshots

[Connor Imes (ckimes)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this. I agree that the NewHuman theme is very dark which results in a lot of different text being difficult or nearly impossible to read. Setting to High importance (since we are still in early development, could be critical otherwise since it automatically sets this theme).
The problem also appears to exist on text that is disabled/grayed-out like can even appear in the update manager.

[Pavol Klačanský (pavolzetor-deactivatedaccount)]

animated circle in firefox on tabs and bottom of X (exit) button

[Michael Monreal (mimox)]

I noticed the problem in firefox, too. Also note the brown area to the side of web entries, this will look bad in both gecko 1.9 and webkit apps.

Even with those bugs fixed the new theme is unusable for me on my laptop. It looks about usable on the desktop, but the laptop screen has less contrast and my eyes start hurting after looking at the white-font-on-dark-brown for a while. Bright themes like the SuSE default theme work much better on this screen. I would think twice before making something like this default for the release...

[Nico Bauer (oshelpdesk)]

i have the problem in amule and vlc. in vlc i cannot read the text in the configurations, in amule i don't see the servers. you only see the selected entry.

[Pavol Klačanský (pavolzetor-deactivatedaccount)]

change rhythmbox icon whe it is played, change chechbox to human old style in white color (rhythmbox menu in rightclick to notification icon)

[Kenneth Wimer (kwwii)]

I've created a wiki page in which to discuss any problem the NewHuman (dark) theme has with any apps. As we are only testing the new theme it's probably better to discuss these issues there than in a bug report which will be ignored once we change back to a lighter theme. http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/NewHumanTesting

[Luka Napotnik (luka-napotnik)]

I can confirm similar problems with gnome-control-center. The text is unreadable because background is white and text is light gray.

[Darren Adams (darrengetsone)]

This also appears when you attempt to rename a file or folder in Nautilus. I've attached a screenshot to illustrate. The folder is labelled 'Scripting' but you can hardly see it

[Francisco Javier Saavedra Plominsky (kuroyume)]

Intrepid Beta seems to fix several of the issues listed on the wiki page.

[David Murphy (schwuk)]

Added a couple more cases for Claws and Firefox/Wordpress to the wiki page.

[Pete Deremer (sportman1280-deactivatedaccount)]

I have the nautilus renaming issue also.

also attaching the following screenshot of gmail notifys pop up.

[Connor Imes (ckimes)]

This was fixed before Intrepid was released as stable, and is not a problem in Jaunty.