Text is unreadable (dark-on-dark) in ubiquity slideshow "Help & Support" slide, when installing Ubuntu 15.10

[Daniel Holbert]

I just installed Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily" using today's daily CD, and I noticed that the "Help & Support" slideshow slide during the installation was completely unreadable, due to having dark text on a dark background.

Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/dX0Gz5F.png

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
Package: ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-10.12-generic 4.2.0
Uname: Linux 4.2.0-10-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.18.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Wed Sep 23 14:53:13 2015
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-09-23 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Alpha amd64 (20150922.1)
SourcePackage: ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Daniel Holbert (dholbert)]

Here's the screenshot as an attachment, in case the imgur version disappears.

[Dylan McCall (dylanmccall)]

Caused by this commit: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubiquity-slideshow/ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu/html/revision/696.1.1

For the change proposed in bug #1406972

The solution is to either remove the "wide" style for that slide, which will still look ugly but at least won't look broken. Or change the copy, but there isn't really time to do that at this stage. So, that's a shame. I can take care of the cheap workaround for now - I'll commit that later today - but I think we should reopen the other bug as well.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

In the MP to fix bug #1406972 I dropped a <div></div> pair compared to the previous contents. Maybe that's what causing this issue.

Even if I don't know how to preview the slideshow, I prepared a new MP which reinserts that <div></div> pair. Hopefully it's sufficient to fix it.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

On 2015-10-02 16:27, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> Even if I don't know how to preview the slideshow, I prepared a new
> MP which reinserts that <div></div> pair. Hopefully it's sufficient
> to fix it.

I just discovered the Slideshow.py and test-slideshow.sh scripts in the trunk, so I have now previewed the slideshow, and can confirm that the proposed change does fix this bug.

[Lysenko Denis (pharmasolin)]

May if you will make that text bold it will look better?

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

On 2015-10-04 00:28, Lysenko Denis wrote:
> May if you will make that text bold it will look better?

The effect of the change is the same larger white fonts as are used on the Welcome page. If we would make it bold, we'd probably make the text at the Welcome page bold as well. Probably too late in the cycle to make that kind of style adjustments.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

I have removed my branch in favour of Dylan's MP, which results in a better layout of the last slide.

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

The proposed branch readds <div> tags and removes wide; which means we'll have a slide looking like the immediate previous slide, and frankly, looks really bad when we can keep it following the same style as the first welcome slide.

All that's really needed is to re-add <div> tags; from that point the text will be properly visible.

[Iain Lane (laney)]

fixed already, I think