Mousepad search highlights hard to see

[Kev Bowring]

In Xubuntu using Mousepad with the default Xubuntu Light colour scheme it is hard to differentiate between the searched term and the rest of the text.

It should show up as

 <!-- Search Matching ?? -->
 <style name="search-match" foreground="white" background="green" />

<color name="green" value="#228822" />
<color name="white" value="#ffffff" />

from http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~xubuntu-art/xubuntu-artwork/wily/view/head:/usr/share/gtksourceview-2.0/styles/xubuntu-light.xml#L45

 from x-dev irc channel "it currently uses "selection" (or at least seems to) instead of using "search-match" "

gedit uses the tags correctly

Furthermore, the currently selected text/search match isn't distinguishable enough.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
Package: mousepad 0.4.0-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-16.19-generic 4.2.3
Uname: Linux 4.2.0-16-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Tue Oct 20 21:43:11 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-10-01 (19 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Alpha amd64 (20151001)
SourcePackage: mousepad
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Kev Bowring (flocculant)]

adding screenshot of some text with a short 3 letter section highlighted

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu Package testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://packages.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1508192

[Pasi Lallinaho (knome)]

This indeed looks like a bug/design decision in Mousepad, instead of the theme.

The following URL *might* be useful in finding the fix we need: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/commits-list/2014-October/msg03101.html

[Pasi Lallinaho (knome)]

The bug is a combination of two issues:
1) A bug in Mousepad, which makes Mousepad not respect the set "search-match" style; when you highlight all search matches, the background for the highlights is always light yellow
2) An accessibility issue in the color scheme (shipped in xubuntu-artwork) which makes the current search match not distinguishable enough. This can be fixed by changing the generic selection color.

Thus, targetting xubuntu-artwork too (and assigning myself to that one).

[Kev Bowring (flocculant)]

been using #bbbbbb for a few days now - much better - thanks

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package xubuntu-artwork - 15.12.3

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xubuntu-artwork (15.12.3) xenial; urgency=medium

  [ Pasi Lallinaho ]
  * Change the selection color background for a darker one in
    the Xubuntu light themes (LP: #1508192)
    - usr/share/gtksourceview-2.0/styles/xubuntu-light.xml
    - usr/share/xfce4/terminal/colorschemes/xubuntu-light.theme
  * New wallpaper for Xubuntu 16.o4
    - debian/xubuntu-wallpapers.links
    - usr/share/plymouth/themes/xubuntu-logo/wallpaper.png
    - usr/share/xfce4/backdrops/xubuntu-xenial.png

  [ Sean Davis ]
  * Dropped libreoffice-style-elementary from package,
    now packaged from the libreoffice source package.
    - debian/control
    - debian/copyright
    - debian/libreoffice-style-elementary.install
    - libreoffice-style-elementary
    - Makefile

 -- Sean Davis <email address hidden> Wed, 09 Mar 2016 20:53:44 -0500