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

[Peter Richards]

Hi Little Girl,

On Tue, 5 Jan 2021 10:04:55 -0500
Little Girl <littlergirl at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

Yes, and the 'disappearing' happens in the search box as well, it seems
anything that has a dropdown behaviour.
 
> 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.

Okay thanks, so Raleigh works as well. It's good that one can test this
problem in the Application Style menu.
 
> 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.

Wow, thanks for doing that documentation, great job. I was thinking of
doing a short video but got bogged down ..lol

> 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.

I don't have plans for diving deeper, my scuba gear only goes down a
certain level.  :)

> 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.

I used Synaptic to install the Adwaita theme, and found that it only
worked in Claws when the Application Style was set for both GTK2 and
GTK3.

In Claws the 'theme' is set to Phoenity, yet it seems it is an icon set
not a theme. Everything works fine now, thanks for your help.

Namaste,

Peter