[Users] Strange behaviour with FROM and TO boxes since upgrading ??

[Peter Richards]

On Mon, 4 Jan 2021 22:24:36 +0000
Bob Williams <usenet at karmasailing.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, 5 Jan 2021 09:08:32 +1100
> Peter Richards wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 4 Jan 2021 16:24:57 -0500
> > Little Girl <littlergirl at gmail.com> wrote:
> >   
> > > Hey there,
> > > 
> > > Peter Richards wrote:
> > >     
> > > >Having spent the last week or so trying SO many different themes,
> > > >changes to colours, fonts and even resorted to installing the
> > > >NVIDIA driver which I have never had to do, the problem still
> > > >exists. (In fact installing that driver has given me a truckload
> > > >of other font issues, so that has compounded things).      
> > > 
> > > I don't have Claws Mail installed on the copy of Kubuntu 20.04
> > > that I've got in a VM, but I poked around a bit to see if Kubuntu
> > > still has GTK-specific settings like it used to. It does, so just
> > > out of curiosity, have you followed these steps yet to try
> > > GTK-specific theming?
> > > 
> > > 1. Open the K Menu.
> > > 
> > > 2. Choose "Settings" from the menu.
> > > 
> > > 3. Choose "System Settings" from the submenu.
> > > 
> > > 4. Choose "Application Style" in the left sidebar.
> > > 
> > > 5. Choose "Configure GNOME/GTK Application Style..." at the bottom
> > > of the screen.
> > > 
> > > 6. Choose a theme for GTK2 and GTK3 and apply the changes or
> > > download a different theme if none of the available ones work
> > > well. 
> > 
> > Thanks, yes I tried that. In the 'preview' if one enters some text
> > and then tries to select the text, the text "disappears".  There is
> > a 'download new GNOME/GTK styles" button there, so I will use that
> > to try some other themes. It will make it much easier to find/test,
> > thanks for your help.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Peter
> >   
> I am using the Adwaita theme here for both GTK2 and GTK3 applications.
> openSUSE Leap 15.2, KDE Plasma. CM 3.17.8

Thanks Bob. I will download that and try it. I'm using the Phoenity
theme for Claws at present, it is really nice, but it exhibits the same
'disappear' problem. 

I did actually find an application style theme and installed as 'Little
Girl' instructed. It was the Gilouche theme as was mentioned in the
bugzilla thread. and it even, under preview/test mode, didn't exhibit
the problem, yet Claws is not recognising it ??

Claws only recognises the Themes installed under Prefences, and I can't
find the path where they are installed. I used Synaptic to install the
package containing all of them, and then they showed up under Claws.
But I can't find a way/method to install one manually.  Anyhoo, the
Application style change is in place, so I will reboot and see if it is
applied to Claws. It may only need an xserver restart ?

Cheers,

Peter