I have poor eyesight and the change to having a grey background for menus & dialogs make them difficult to read, because of the lack of contrast. I first noticed this in LibreOffice 3.3.2, and the problem persists in 3.4.0 beta1. Could you please revert back to a white background.
Note that for people with eyesight like mine, the grey background makes it extremely difficult to use to menus, whereas with a white background I could more easily read them. The problem persists in 3.4.0 beta3.
Still a problem in 3.4 beta4.
isn't this subject to your theme? ( /me for instance uses opensuse with the gilouche theme which certainly doesn't have grey backgrounds for menus ) can you give more details about your system ( desktop, theme etc. )
I have made no changes to my desktop nor any changes to any 'theme' nor anything related, since LO 3.3.1 which had menus with a white background- yet LO 3.3.2 onwards uses a grey background for menus. More specifically, I had been using 3.3.1 and a few minutes later I installed 3.3.2 and noticed the menu background had changed from white to grey. So I can not account for the change in the menu background from anything I have done! If you want me to provide further information, or to run specific diagnostics, or to download a nightly (or some such)- I am happy to do so. My system details: GNOME Clearlooks Fedora 14 fully up-to-date Linux saturn 2.6.35.12-90.fc14.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Apr 22 16:01:29 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux AMD 810 quad core 64 bit 8 GB DDR3 RAM 5 * 500GB in software RAID-6 configuration ASUS M4A78T-E mother board
(In reply to comment #4) > I have made no changes to my desktop nor any changes to any 'theme' nor > anything related, since LO 3.3.1 which had menus with a white background- yet > LO 3.3.2 onwards uses a grey background for menus. I didn't say you made any changes to your theme but just noted that 'usually' an applications menu/dialog background colours etc. are influenced by the windows theme you use. I think there have been recent changes to libreoffice in the area of gnome/gtk integration and that might explain why the menu/dialog background has changed. So.. it might be worth playing around with your desktop window/appearance settings to selecting some other themes to find one that suits better and see if that improves things. I would have expected that with clearlooks theme that indeed the dialog background would be gray but ( at least for me ) with clearlooks menus are white ( or white-ish ) with black text. Perhaps you might get a better result with beta4 ( I don't have 3.4 beta1 to hand to compare ) Also if you have eyesight problems you might get a better experience ( not just with libreoffice ) by using a high-contrast theme
Note problem persists in LO 3.4 Beta 4. Checked out all the standard GNOME themes, no apparent difference. Gedit and Firefox menus are a very light grey, LO menus are a darker grey. I don't want to change to a high contrast theme, as: (1) I don't have the same problems in other applications (2) Changing the theme made no apparent difference to LO 3.4 beta 4. I only mentioned that I had made no changes to my desktop, to emphasis that it was LO that changed rather than some other aspect of my system. Another 64 bit machine running Fedora 14, with GOME Clearlooks, also has a dark grey background to menus in LO 3.4 beta 4.
Created attachment 46576 [details] Shows the dark grey background to menus. Seems to be the same dark grey for menu background from LO 3.3.2 onwards, this image for LO 3.4-beta-4
(In reply to comment #7) > Created an attachment (id=46576) [details] > Shows the dark grey background to menus. > > Seems to be the same dark grey for menu background from LO 3.3.2 onwards, this > image for LO 3.4-beta-4 then that doesn't look right at all, for me I don't see this, so.. maybe a distro specific problem. did you download the libreoffice versions that exhibited the problems from the libreoffice site or do you use distro specific ones ( e.g. I wouldn't be surprised if gnome/gtk integration was broken for the builds from the libreoffice site )
I had downloaded all the LO versions directly from the LibreOffice site. I was about to say that Fedora 14 does not have its own LO package, _BUT_ I just found that it does, including 3.4!!!. I have 2 machines running LO 3.4, I will change one to use the Fedora version.
I wrote too soon... On closer inspection 'yum info' was simply reporting that LO 3.4 had been installed. So it was just referring to the version downloaded directly from the LibreOffice site.
Problem fixed in LO 3.4 Beta 5, thanks.
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