I suspect that many aspects of this actually were fixed at various times. But the hard part is to prevent all the CSS changes in the browser front-end from triggering some aspect of it again. (At one point I think I'd made a testing mode in which the correct foreground/background pairs were always the same color, so that no text should be visible, that could be used to check that colors were matched correctly. I'm not sure if I even landed the code for it or what happened to it since.) I'd also done some work to document what those pairs were, i.e., the rules for which native-theme-derived foreground color should be matched with which background color so that themes work correctly. (-moz-appearance makes this a bit more complicated, since foreground colors could be matched with a -moz-appearance background as well.)
The number of comments recently makes me suspect that something got *worse* recently. In theory fixing this probably requires: * documenting what the valid foreground-color and (background-color or -moz-appearance) pairs are for use of colors from native themes * developing a mechanism to check that the UI uses only those pairs together and nothing else (probably by making each pair render the same (bright) color as a diagnostic * auditing the Firefox UI * checking that the things we're extracting from GTK themes make sense with the rules that we're applying -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/220263 Title: Bad Firefox integration with dark themes Status in Mozilla Firefox: Fix Released Status in XULRunner: Confirmed Status in firefox package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: I'm using Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 5 on Ubuntu 8.04 with a dark theme. Now I see all the input boxes and buttons filled with grey colour. This happened even with Firefox 2, but I solved that problem with a quick guide under the comment "firefox fix" by Proton at the bottom of this page: http://www.gnome- look.org/content/show.php/Grey+Neu?content=60824 In Firefox 3 I can't correct this problem. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/220263/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
