notification-daemon should use colors from GNOME theme

[rubinstein]

Hi, I know you made the changes to switch to the new orange/yellowish ubuntu theme by default.

But what about people (like me) who use for example the Clearlooks theme which is more blue, so the notifications look a bit strange when used with this theme. So I think a maybe better solution would be to get the colors from the GNOME theme and use it with notification-daemon. Another solution would be to use a more theme-neutral look like before (with lots of white).

I assume I can change this with a few clicks in the registry editor, but maybe it would be nice to have this automagically resolved :-)

[Mathieu Pillard (diox)]

I agree. New theme looks ok with Human, but doesn't look right at all in other themes. If notification-daemon cannot be changed to follow the Gnome theme, maybe there should be a hack in gnome-theme-manager to switch to the ubuntu theme for notifications only if Human theme is selected, and default to standard otherwise.

[Łukasz Halman (lukasz-halman)]

I agree too.

[Holger Bauer (umarmung-planet)]

The current solution is a really bad one. The text color is taken from the current gtk theme, but not the corresponding background color.
Please, whatever solution you will provide, either hardcode all colors or take all colors from the gtkrc. Right now I have notification bubbles with a white text on a yellow background, which is not readable.

[Harry Wright (harrywright)]

Furthermore, the ubuntu theme is unusable when using white-on-black colour schemes. Since the background is hard-coded, but the foreground isn't, the notification-daemon ends up with white text on a pale yellow background, which isn't very readable.

[Harry Wright (harrywright)]

A quick patch for ubuntu/theme.c to hardcode text colour to black.

[Sebastian Dröge (slomo)]

rejecting this bug here as it's a duplicate of bug #25497. please let's continue discussion there :)