GTK2/GTK3 button text color in LibreOffice

Question

GTK2/GTK3 button text color in LibreOffice

thewaiter opened this issue 5 years ago · 12 comments

Hello guys

I am using oomox for our Bodhi Linux distribution and I am pretty happy that is an app like this to help me maintain our themes. Anyway I see some troubles with gtk 3.20. Look at the picture. Firefox in the background has fine button text color but Writer/Libre Office does not. Why? Have I missed some setting?

https://i.imgur.com/t0wXmpI.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/eG9kZqi.jpg

Thanx for your soon reply and excuse me in case I overlooked the same issue which had been responsed.

Best regards

Stefan

Answer 1 · 2019-09-10T14:23:06.000Z

try switching between gtk2 and gtk3 VCL-s in libreoffice, oomox gtk theme doesn't have any style overrides specific to libreoffice

Answer 2 · 2019-09-10T14:24:09.000Z

(actually have one in gtk2 theme, but i don't think it's related to your problem:)

style "performance-fix" {
	engine "murrine" {
		textstyle = 0
	}
}

widget "*OOoFixed*" style "performance-fix" # Openoffice/Libreoffice

Answer 3 · 2019-09-10T14:32:11.000Z

yup, i can reproduce the problem with their gtk3 VCL, seems like a problem in that VCL itself

unfortunately gtk3 inspector is not working in libreoffice, so i can't come up with any workaround for this

Answer 4 · 2019-09-10T14:39:53.000Z

hm, i've actually found a way to force GTK inspector without using the hotkeys:

$ env GTK_THEME=oomox-unit_01c GTK_DEBUG=interactive libreoffice

however inspector showing some weird output (it just showing whole window as a big single widget instead of showing buttons, input fields and so on):

Answer 5 · 2019-09-10T14:47:41.000Z

also, just out of curiosity i've tried gtk2 VCL, and it have the same issue (button labels using color of normal labels):

Answer 6 · 2019-09-10T14:55:52.000Z

at this point it just feels like a question/bug to report to developers of GTK2 and GTK3 LibreOffice's VCLs

Answer 7 · 2019-09-10T18:14:00.000Z

Hello there and thanx for your attention. I probably need to ask those developers :(

Answer 8 · 2019-09-10T18:15:20.000Z

also if you know some gtk3 themes in which such combination (dark labels on background and light labels on buttons or the opposite) are working fine there in libreoffice -- we could try to analyze those themes

Answer 9 · 2019-09-10T18:19:13.000Z

Just forced to use Libre Office without GTK 3. It was simple, just purge libreoffice-gtk3. Anyway the same situation with Thunar and combobox. Look at the picture. Maybe I am wrong but what if oomox is buggy? I am using v 1.11.
https://i.imgur.com/HnjYFfL.jpg

Answer 10 · 2019-09-10T18:39:41.000Z

with thunar i can't reproduce the issue:

please double-check with the latest version of oomox theme

Answer 11 · 2019-09-11T12:49:26.000Z

I can reproduce the LibreOffice issue even with other theme. It seems LibreOffice reads the text color from .background, not button.

When I manually set button { color: red; } (in Materia):

When I manually set .background { color: red; }:

This seems to be an upstream LibreOffice bug.

Answer 12 · 2019-09-11T16:17:26.000Z

@nana-4 thanks for looking into this!