TextField's placeHolderText invisible inside a dialog

[Michael Zanetti]

Using a dark background in an application, a Dialog and a TextField inside that Dialog renders the placeholderText nearly invisible.

[Olivia Caro de Diego (oliviacaroddiego)]

Hi Christian,

Would you mind to provide screenshots, please?

Thank you,
Olivia

[Christian Dywan (kalikiana)]

I'll pass this request to Michael. I'm assigned to this report because it affects TextField but I haven't actually looked into it.

[Michael Zanetti (mzanetti)]

Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/Pma8cs6.png

Note, the two visible labels have manually set the color to "black".

Here's the code for the dialog: http://paste.ubuntu.com/11077309/

[Olivia Caro de Diego (oliviacaroddiego)]

Hi guys,

The issue in this case is the text color.

Can we use this color instead, please? ----> #5D5D5D

Would you mind to provide a screenshot when ready, please?

Thank you very much, indeed.
Olivia

[Christian Dywan (kalikiana)]

I can't reproduce it with the above snippet, both on rtm and stagiging the text is readable.

[Christian Dywan (kalikiana)]

I pondered on this and found how to reproduce afterall: set any backgroundColor on the MainView. Whether it's black, green or orange the placeholder is no longer visible.

[Christian Dywan (kalikiana)]

So what happens is that the backgroundColor causes the automatic switch to SuruDark which has a bad normal.backgroundColor.

[Olivia Caro de Diego (oliviacaroddiego)]

Hi Christian,

Would you mind to change the opacity to 50% on #5d5d5d, please?

I was checking with Jouni and this should be ok like this.

Thanks for all,
Olivia

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-ui-toolkit - 1.3.1534+15.10.20150625-0ubuntu1

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ubuntu-ui-toolkit (1.3.1534+15.10.20150625-0ubuntu1) wily; urgency=medium

  [ Christian Dywan ]
  * Use TextField.write rather than keyboard.type.
  * Update normal.backgroundText in SuruDark to #5D5D5D. Fixes LP: #1413801.
  * Fix "runtest.sh: line 78: [: -eq: unary operator expected]".
  * Consider caret visibility to decide text menu anchor. Fixes LP: #1462419.
  * Remove text from header textinput AP test QML. Fixes LP: #1459632.
  * No deprecation notes for our own components. Fixes LP: #1457528.

  [ Leonardo Arias Fonseca ]
  * Add url protocols to the fake application.
  * Adds a dependency to url-dispatcher-tools in ubuntu-ui-toolkit-autopilot.
  * Use the test launcher for all the toolkit autopilot tests.

  [ Zsombor Egri ]
  * Remove property bindings before property write does it. Fixes LP: #1462738.
  * Introducing StyleHints to provide style specific property changes.
  * Remove ThemeSettings.createStyleComponent() and add styleName to StyledItem.
    Fixes LP: #1458845.

  [ Loïc Molinari ]
  * [UbuntuShape] Computed dfdt factors based on window content orientation.
  * Previous logic was based on screen orientation which is not in sync with
    OrientationHelper.qml. Fixes LP: #1455567.

  [ Timo Jyrinki ]
  * Change -html documentation runtime dependencies into Suggests only to limit
    ubuntu-sdk download size. We're switching to offering only .qch offline
    documentation in SDK (inside of it), and they're being added to the seed.
    Fixes LP: #1461034.
  * Licensecheck started complaining about a person name, change to Canonical.
    Fixes LP: #1464549

  [ Andrea Bernabei ]
  * Modify ListItem.Caption label margins. Fixes LP: #1314672.

  [ Tim Peeters ]
  * Introduce IconButtonStyle.

 -- CI Train Bot <email address hidden> Thu, 25 Jun 2015 04:37:52 +0000