[Bug 1037457] [NEW] inappropriate color theme in the contact list

[Ghislain Vaillant]

Public bug reported:

A slight usability issue, certainly because of the default empathy color
theme. On the contact list, when using the drop-dowm menu to set your
status ("Available", "Busy"...), the text color is dark grey on a black
background. Unless you are lucky to use a monitor with strong backlight,
this is obviously not the wisest choice for readability. Hoovering the
menu entries with the mouse does reveal the text better (orange
background with white text) but this is not intuitive at first.

Proposed solution :
Instead, the color layout in the drop-down menu of the contact list should be set to white font on dark background as it is for the Me Menu under the mail icon. One might argue that people are more likely to use the Me Menu instead of the contact list. Still, this fix will bring a little more consistancy between all the available options for the user.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: empathy 3.4.2.3-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-29.46-generic 3.2.24
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-29-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu12
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Aug 16 10:06:40 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: empathy
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: empathy (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug precise running-unity

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