[Bug 1982660] Re: 'foreground=darkred' can make text illegible

[Benjamin Drung]

** Package changed: debian-installer (Ubuntu) => ubiquity (Ubuntu)

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
       Status: Expired => New

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Title:
  'foreground=darkred' can make text illegible

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  The Ubuntu release at issue: 22.04 (but also some or all subsequent
  versions?).

  Version of package: unclear or not quite applicable; please see below.

  Expectation: all text in the installer is legible.

  Reality: not all text in the installer is legible.

  Details area as follows.

  To the best of my limited knowledge, the Ubiquity installer can end up
  rendering some text - including some rather important text - in a
  hard-to-read dark red on black. 'To the best of my knowledge' because
  I gather, from a bug report that I filed against Linux Mint, that this
  problem _in some way_ owes to the Ubiquity installer. I attach a
  screenshot that shows the problem.

  The bug report that I mention is here:
  <https://github.com/linuxmint/mint21-beta/issues/79#issuecomment-1193125018>.
  The report describes how, in a version of Ubiquity used by Mint, an
  important warning is very hard to read when using dark mode (and the
  report gives the aforementioned, and here attached, screenshot). In
  responding to the report, the chief maintainer of Linux Mint wrote as
  follows.

  [Start of quotation. Abridgement and interpolation mine.]

  I agree with you. If this was our installer I'd replace this
  foreground=darkred with weight=bold. However this is Ubiquity, the
  pango markups are part of the translations, there are 1729 occurences
  of them in PO files, some taking multiple lines, some using
  backslashes in front of the quotes. I don't want to risk an l10n issue
  just for this or even worse an installer crash. [. . .] This is indeed
  a bug and it should be fixed but the way ubiquity is coded, this isn't
  worth risking a regression [in Linux Mint 21] for.

  [End of quotation.]

  The Mint installer at issue is from Linux Mint 21.0, which is based upon Ubuntu 22.04. The Mint installer is hosted at <https://github.com/linuxmint/ubiquity>.
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  ProblemType: Bug
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.24
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
  CurrentDesktop: X-Cinnamon
  DeviceMapperTables: No devices found
  DistroRelease: Linux Mint 20.3
  DmraidDevices: no block devices found
  DmraidSets: no block devices found
  MachineType: LENOVO 20KH001UKP
  MemoryUsage:
   total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
   Mem:       16274436     2293624      178196     1346504    13802616    12294188
   Swap:      21423100        1772    21421328
  Package: debian-installer (not installed)
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.15.0-41-generic root=UUID=65538fc8-e344-42ac-94f4-2751b5bf7f76 ro cpuidle.governor=teo i915.enable_fbc=1 i915.fastboot=1 mitigations=off psmouse.synaptics_intertouch=1 quiet reboot=w splash msr.allow_writes=on nosgx acpi_backlight=video
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-41.44~20.04.1-generic 5.15.39
  Tags:  una
  Uname: Linux 5.15.0-41-generic x86_64
  UnreportableReason: This is not an official Linux package. Please remove any third party package and try again.
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  UserGroups: _chrony adm cdrom clamav davfs2 dialout dip input lpadmin netdev plugdev postfix sambashare sudo systemd-network vboxusers
  _MarkForUpload: True
  dmi.bios.date: 11/16/2021
  dmi.bios.release: 1.55
  dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
  dmi.bios.version: N23ET80W (1.55 )
  dmi.board.asset.tag: Not Available
  dmi.board.name: 20KH001UKP
  dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
  dmi.board.version: 0B98417 WIN
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
  dmi.chassis.type: 10
  dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
  dmi.chassis.version: None
  dmi.ec.firmware.release: 1.22
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvrN23ET80W(1.55):bd11/16/2021:br1.55:efr1.22:svnLENOVO:pn20KH001UKP:pvrThinkPadX1Carbon6th:rvnLENOVO:rn20KH001UKP:rvr0B98417WIN:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNone:skuLENOVO_MT_20KH_BU_Think_FM_ThinkPadX1Carbon6th:
  dmi.product.family: ThinkPad X1 Carbon 6th
  dmi.product.name: 20KH001UKP
  dmi.product.sku: LENOVO_MT_20KH_BU_Think_FM_ThinkPad X1 Carbon 6th
  dmi.product.version: ThinkPad X1 Carbon 6th
  dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO

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