Background color issue in (some overview pages in the) Documentation

[Νίκος Αλεξανδρής]

Problem:
In some overview pages in the documentation (Ubuntu's Help Center) the background color is red which is, combining with blue colored text, sometime quite difficult to read (depending on the brightness/contrast and light conditons, not so bright laptop lcd's, etc.).

Other users reported that the background color is brown (which does not make reading difficult) or blue (...don't know about the text-color in this case!) [1] [2].

Suggestion:
The documentation should have one (at least as default) color "text & background" combination, easy to read.

Examples:
Activate Ubuntu's Help Center with "F1" and look for example at "Adding, Removing and Updating Applications" or "Internet and Networks".

More examples:
Attached screenshot

[1] [2] http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/13054/

[Brian Curtis (bcurtiswx)]

Please tell us what version of Ubuntu you are using. I cannot confirm this on my machine.

[Νίκος Αλεξανδρής (nikos.alexandris)]

On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 03:38 +0000, Brian Curtis wrote:
> Please tell us what version of Ubuntu you are using. I cannot confirm
> this on my machine.
>
> ** Changed in: ubuntu
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04

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Nikos Alexandris

[Νίκος Αλεξανδρής (nikos.alexandris)]

I recently removed latest QT library (4.4) I installed to have a nicer look on some programs (like LyX) and I noticed for the first time a brown background in the Help Center. So, I re-installed QT4.4 and the red background is back!

So, is this a bug... ?

[Νίκος Αλεξανδρής (nikos.alexandris)]

I am convinced that it's a QT-issue! I've changed some settings via qtconfig and now I get another background color in the Help Center.

[Brian Curtis (bcurtiswx)]

 Νίκος Αλεξανδρής ,

Sorry, this bug has slipped through my notifications. Since it has been such a long time, can you please let me know if you have found a fix to your issue or still experience this?

[Νίκος Αλεξανδρής (nikos.alexandris)]

Hi Brian,
(if I may call you with your first name)

I still experience this issue. After a clean install of Ubuntu II/64-bit on a new machine and after installing various programs that depend on QT I have the exact same effect as described in my first post.

Kind regards, Nikos

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Now using:
$ lsb_release -rd

Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10

[George Lesica (oldmanstan)]

I have Qt 4.4.3 installed under gnome on Ubuntu 8.10 (most current updates) and the box appears light green.

[Brian Curtis (bcurtiswx)]

George and Nikos,

This ones hard to tell if QT is the direct cause. Can you both please list which packages you have installed (other than the default ubuntu packages) that are using QT. If you have the availability, check using a live intrepid desktop CD to see if this is still happening (i.e. boot into the LIVE-CD instead of your hard drive).

Thank you for your patience while we try to get the right package thats causing this bug

[Νίκος Αλεξανδρής (nikos.alexandris)]

One step at a time :-). Following the list with my qt-relevant installed programs:

$ dpkg -l | grep qt | cut -d" " -f3
apport-qt
libavahi-qt3-1
libdbus-1-qt3
libdbus-qt-1-1c2
libpoppler-qt2
libpoppler-qt4-3
libqt3-mt
libqt4-assistant
libqt4-core
libqt4-dbg
libqt4-dbus
libqt4-designer
libqt4-dev
libqt4-gui
libqt4-help
libqt4-network
libqt4-opengl
libqt4-opengl-dev
libqt4-qt3support
libqt4-script
libqt4-sql
libqt4-sql-mysql
libqt4-sql-sqlite
libqt4-svg
libqt4-test
libqt4-webkit
libqt4-xml
libqt4-xmlpatterns
libqtcore4
libqtgui4
libqwt5-qt4
libqwt5-qt4-dev
libstrigiqtdbusclient0
lsb-qt4
opera
pyqt-tools
pyqt4-dev-tools
python-qt4
python-qt4-common
python-qt4-dev
python-qwt5-qt4
qt4-designer
qt4-dev-tools
qt4-doc
qt4-qtconfig

[Brian Curtis (bcurtiswx)]

could you please check to see if this happens on a live CD?

[Νίκος Αλεξανδρής (nikos.alexandris)]

Right! Apologies for the delay.

I am sending the following screenshot from within a live(cd) - Ubuntu II / 64-bit session. There is no problem at all. I would be (negatively) surprised if this "problem" would appear in a live-CD session where no QT-packages are installed.

Kind regards, Nikos

[Νίκος Αλεξανδρής (nikos.alexandris)]

Minor issue but sorry for the typo in the screenshot filename. It should read "livecd..." and not "livecs...".

Nikos

[Brian Curtis (bcurtiswx)]

This ones hard to determine which specific QT package is involved. I've gathered as much information as i can think of. Setting to triaged and low importance. Thank you for reporting this bug, and we look forward to your future reports.

[Νίκος Αλεξανδρής (nikos.alexandris)]

Thanks for the feedback. Let me know if I can be of any help.
Kindest regards, Nikos