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

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Peter Richards wrote:
>Little Girl wrote:
 
>> It does, so just out of curiosity, have you followed these steps
>> yet to try GTK-specific theming?

[SNIP]

>Thanks, yes I tried that. In the 'preview' if one enters some text
>and then tries to select the text, the text "disappears".

I can verify that. I booted a live CD of Kubuntu 20.04 and
immediately installed Claws Mail on it without customizing it in any
way. I created a quick temporary account in Claws Mail by accepting
the defaults. I then composed an email and selected the text in the
From field. Its background turned bright blue. I right-clicked it to
copy it and it vanished from view. This is exactly as you've
described it.

I then closed Claws Mail, opened Kubuntu's K Menu, chose "System
Settings" from the menu, chose the Application Style" section from
the sub-menu, clicked the "Configure GNOME/GTK Application Style..."
button, clicked the GTK2 theme's "Breeze" button, chose the "Raleigh"
theme from the drop-down menu, and clicked the "Apply" button.

I then opened Claws Mail and composed an email. This time, when I
selected the text in the From field, its background turned dark blue
and when I right-clicked it to copy it, its background turned grey
and the text was still visible.

Screenshots of my tests and results are here:

https://imgur.com/a/5Erspbv

Please excuse the hot pink window decoration on those screenshots.
That's from my host machine's vivid color theme and I just didn't
want to clean up each of the VM's images to remove it.

Note that the selected font in GTK2 programs is white in Kubuntu, so
whatever is causing this is turning the background white, which makes
the text seem to disappear. It's definitely something that can be
found and changed by poking around, but the current GTK way of
handling CSS is quite a dance for an end user to poke around in, so
all I can say is good luck if you plan on hunting it down.

As an alternative, you can use the GTK2 Raleigh theme or try some of
the downloadable themes to find one that suits your taste if any of
those don't make the text seem to vanish.

>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.

Any time. And yep, that's definitely worth doing since that Raleigh
theme isn't for everybody.

-- 
Little Girl

There is no spoon.