SOLVED: How do you make Libreoffice 7 menus READABLE?

[M. Fioretti]

(Found by "adapting" what I found at https://codepre.com/enable-light-mode-menus-system-menus-notifications-on-ubuntu-21-04.html)

1) sudo apt-get install gnome-shell-extensions

2) login into standard Ubuntu interface, open settings, go to
Appearance, thanks to #1 you now find a panel where you can set
"Windows LIGHT (not dark!) mode".

Thanks to that, Libreoffice toolbar, menus etc finally become decent
(see screenshot), and above all (fingers crossed) remain so even after
logging out and logging in again with another window manager (i3 on
X11).

Sincere, sincere thanks to everybody who quickly helped on and off
list, but allow me also a little rant:

I can't believe I had to waste 2/3 hours of life because

a) an application so crucial for a desktop comes out, after installing
it and a window manager from official sources of a major distro, with
an unusable UI (that is, with toolbars and dropdown menus with
grey font, on darker grey/almost black background. Smart, indeed).

b) there is no way to fix that from within libreoffice

c) the web is full of WRONG answers, i.e. pages titled "how to change
libreoffice THEME", when all they explain is (when they aren't plain
wrong our outdated) ONLY how to change ICON SETS, which are a whole
different thing.

d) once you, only by exclusion of alternatives, figure out that maybe
windows modes or color schemes may be the answer, you discover there
is no way inside gnome panel to change such a basic usability feature
without installing extensions.

I only use FOSS and will continue to do so. But had this happened to
me on a friend's computer, while trying to convert him, I'd have gone
"just stay with windows, you don't deserve this crap" after twenty
minutes. Again, I am still very grateful to this list, and Ubuntu, and
FOSS developers in general, but this was embarrassing. Applications
should have a default interface that is readable, and in any case it
should be possible to fix it without installing anything else, with
buttons or whatever in plain sight.

Marco
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