[gentoo-user] Silly colours in drop-down menus

[gentoo-user] Silly colours in drop-down menus

[Peter Humphrey]

Hello list,

Recently I've been plagued with KDE's (or plasma's) silly rendering of drop-
down lists in dialogue boxes. It happens on the desktop, in Firefox, Chrome 
and Seamonkey but not in KMail.

The problem is white text on a pale grey background. I can just about make 
it out with a large magnifying glass, provided I know where to look. 
Otherwise I just can't see anything.

Can anyone suggest what might be wrong? I've searched through all the 
settings I can find, with no luck.

-- 
Regards,
Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Silly colours in drop-down menus

[J. Roeleveld]

On 24 August 2017 17:16:05 GMT+02:00, Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
>Hello list,
>
>Recently I've been plagued with KDE's (or plasma's) silly rendering of
>drop-
>down lists in dialogue boxes. It happens on the desktop, in Firefox,
>Chrome 
>and Seamonkey but not in KMail.
>
>The problem is white text on a pale grey background. I can just about
>make 
>it out with a large magnifying glass, provided I know where to look. 
>Otherwise I just can't see anything.
>
>Can anyone suggest what might be wrong? I've searched through all the 
>settings I can find, with no luck.

Sounds like an issue with Gnome settings as the affected programs are Gnome based instead of KDE/QT.

If it helps, I don't have this issue and if you can point me in specific directions, I can provide you with my settings.

--
Joost
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Re: [gentoo-user] Silly colours in drop-down menus

[Dale]

Peter Humphrey wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> Recently I've been plagued with KDE's (or plasma's) silly rendering of drop-
> down lists in dialogue boxes. It happens on the desktop, in Firefox, Chrome 
> and Seamonkey but not in KMail.
>
> The problem is white text on a pale grey background. I can just about make 
> it out with a large magnifying glass, provided I know where to look. 
> Otherwise I just can't see anything.
>
> Can anyone suggest what might be wrong? I've searched through all the 
> settings I can find, with no luck.
>

My eyes aren't great today so I hope this makes sense.  I think this is
what you need to adjust.  I'm not sure since it was a while ago that I
ran into something like this.  Click the K menu thingy, then settings
and then QT Configuration Tool.  That is one place.

If that doesn't help, here's another place.  In the System Settings
menu, look under Appearance and then select Application Style.  On the
left there should be a Gnome Application Style tab like thing.  I
adjusted the GTK2 and GTK3 themes to change some programs. 

I can't recall for sure which one does what.  I'm sort of leaning toward
the last one.  May want to try it first.  I don't think you have to
logout for them to go into affect.  My GTK2 is set to Releigh and GTK3
is set to Breeze.  That may be a starting point at least.  You may want
to check some other setting in the other tabs too. 

Hope that makes sense and helps.

Dale

:-)  :-)