https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=118748
--- Comment #2 from David Rankin <[email protected]> 2012-01-11 21:54:27 UTC --- I don't know what the "Automatically detect high contrast mode of operating system" setting is supposed to do to begin with. I have used light themes, dark themes, on kde, gnome, fluxbox, windowmaker, enlightenment, etc.. and I have never seen a reason for it. My experience for the past several years on SuSE/openSuSE and ArchLinux is that this automatic setting has caused nothing but problems. I think the correct way to rethink it is to ask the question "Regardless of the desktop color theme, how many users are ever going to want something other than black text on a white background for the OO apps?" I think the answer is near zero. Even for those users that do use a dark theme (like me), they still want black text on a white background for word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations. In over 24 years of GUI computing (recall Cricket Graph?), I cannot recall a single instance where I would want anything other than black on white as a default starting document. Further, we still print in a black and white world. Presentations are about the only thing where a colored background is desired -- and even in that case, the color is largely handled by different templates applied by the user, not as a default color scheme set by the office suite. Regardless, I agree that this needs re-thinking. KISS is a good philosophy. The more you can get away from the suite trying to 'out think' the user with this kind of 'default' issue, the fewer problems you will have after the 3.4 release. -- Configure bugmail: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
