Ambiance theme input boxes color gray

[mahfiaz]

Binary package hint: light-themes

Input boxes color is gray. There are two good reasons for this to be black.
We should never reduce the contrast of text by default, because it kills accessibility. A lot of bad monitors are out there which are hard to read anyway.

SourcePackage: light-themes

[mahfiaz (mahfiaz)]

I think this *is* a important bug, since it has major drawbacks in printing.

Please don't consider this rude, but I will state the problem more clear:
* Everybody using default theme will get really printing quality from OpenOffice using default settings. *

Until this is fixed in Openoffice, we really should keep the themes using black text. This affects almost all the themes:
Ambiance, Dust, Dust sand, New Wave, Radiance

[mahfiaz (mahfiaz)]

s/really printing quality/really poor printing quality/

[Jose Gómez (adler-dreamcoder)]

While using the Ambiance theme in Natty and previous Ubuntu versions, documents created in LibreOffice / OpenOffice will have its text gray.

Therefore, contrast in screen will be lower, and most important, contrast in the printed documents will also be lower, being the text gray instead of black.

I completely agree with mahfiaz's suggestions (both).

[mahfiaz (mahfiaz)]

Jose, thanks, finally the second person who actually uses Ubuntu and Libre/OOffice for printing :)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Andrea Cimitan (cimi)]

Still a bug? I am quite satisfied generally

[mahfiaz (mahfiaz)]

Hate to say it, but it's even worse since changing that color back to black is now harder than before when we had Gnome 2 and nice dialog for this.

Virtually ALL text on screen is gray, half of it on gray background as well, with web and mail being the only exceptions. It makes reading harder.
People sometimes use their laptops in sunny rooms, in direct sunlight, they may have poor eyesight, they would like to reduce screen brightness to save battery, etc. In all these mentioned cases having lower contrast is wrong.

Actually it doesn't affect exporting to PDF or printing from LibreOffice, text is converted to black. But there is one huge exception, equations still remain gray everywhere.

[mahfiaz (mahfiaz)]

A picture of how gray 76% gray actually is.

[Andrea Cimitan (cimi)]

Shall we patch libreoffice?

[mahfiaz (mahfiaz)]

No, this would create a bigger mess at bigger scale, just try out the High Contrast Inverse theme (white text on dark blue background).

Also I just noticed that the equations are now always black (so the other half of my last comment does not hold anymore, changed the original description as well). So LibreOffice does everything as best as it can now.

But I am still conviced that we shouldn't put gray text on light gray background in the default theme.

[Andrea Cimitan (cimi)]

I will have to mark this as opinion if we can't manage to have libreoffice to use black on ambiance. I am not fan of using black everywhere.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Josh Burghandy (kid1000002000)]

It may be an opinion, but I would imagine that most basic users would prefer to read black text, not gray in their documents.

[Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb)]

The issue (LP: #628105) with LibreOffice has been fixed and will be available in 4.0/Raring.