Bug 603800

Summary: Changing to light color backgrounds causes taskbar to go black and clock still uses black font making it unreadable.
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.3 Reporter: Rudi Pittman <rvpittman+novell>
Component: KDE4 WorkspaceAssignee: E-mail List <kde-maintainers>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P4 - Low CC: forgotten_B-7XM5iatA, forgotten_l5QCzUHucG, mrmazda, poolbarde, wstephenson
Version: Final   
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Hardware: x86   
OS: openSUSE 11.3   
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Description Rudi Pittman 2010-05-07 15:59:19 UTC
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100417 SUSE/3.6.4-1.1 Firefox/3.6.4

I went into desktop settings and clicked on "Get New Wallpaper" and downloaded one called "Winter Tracks"....the  taskbar went to black and everything but the clock adjusted....the clock went to black text on black background and was unreadable.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Change to Lightbackground
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Expected Results:  
If Taskbar goes to dark color then clock should adjust to light color.
Comment 1 Lubos Lunak 2010-05-11 14:45:07 UTC
Please report non-major problems that are not openSUSE-specific directly upstream at http://bugs.kde.org (http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:KDE#Report_at_bugzilla.novell.com_or_bugs.kde.org.3F).
Comment 2 Felix Miata 2010-06-13 19:12:41 UTC
This happens with a new user/virgin settings (deleted $HOME/.kde*, $HOME/.config & more at startup) in M7, so should be fixed in openSUSE. Neither is it minor. Except for within an open application's object on the panel, there is no visible text on the panel anywhere.
Comment 3 Felix Miata 2010-06-14 00:44:45 UTC
'zypper in kdebase4-workspace-branding-upstream' produced a slight improvement in the clock visibility, but worsened the open application objects, making their text functionally invisible.
Comment 4 Lubos Lunak 2010-06-14 12:25:58 UTC
Read comment #1 again.
Comment 5 Felix Miata 2010-06-14 12:48:06 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> Read comment #1 again.

Because this bug contains no reference to any upstream bug, the way I read comment 0 and the "resolved upstream" resolution, we can expect 11.3 to be released with a default unreadable clock, as well as alternate themes with unreadable clocks.
Comment 6 Lubos Lunak 2010-06-14 15:02:48 UTC
"This happens" is not a very good description if you meant to say that your clock is black on black right after starting a new desktop session for a new user, because I understood "this" as "this bugreport including the steps to reproduce".

Either way, M7 works just fine here for a new user, so I need a way to reproduce.
Comment 7 Hendrik Müller 2010-07-30 07:57:08 UTC
I have installed a fresh opensuse 11.3 on my acer-one.
When starting kde first time all looks ok, but after some logings, kicker went black and the clock still is black.
I tried changing the color by system_Configuration->detailed_Design and selection one of the available kicker designs:
    Aya Kickoff
    Air for NEtbooks Kickoff
    AIR openSUSE Kickoff
Whatever i do, always kicker changes to a light gray color, so the clock is readable. Anyhow, after rebooting the system kicker is black again.
Comment 8 Forgotten User B-7XM5iatA 2010-08-01 10:28:30 UTC
I can confirm this problem.
But I think it has nothing to do with the background color.
If I resize the taskbar a little bit smaller as the screen width
taskbar turn back to light grey color.
Hope this help to find the real reason.
Comment 9 Forgotten User l5QCzUHucG 2010-08-04 20:25:19 UTC
Same here. The taskbar went dark when I switched off the desktop effects (and logged off and on again)
I can confirm that adjusting the height of the taskbar as suggested in comment 8 switches it back to light grey. Alternatively, switching desktop effects on  does the same.
Comment 10 Forgotten User B-7XM5iatA 2010-08-04 20:42:39 UTC
I did not change the height of taskbar, I changed the width and saved this setting. After saving the taskbar is allways light grey in case of my. Please try this out to compare. I know its no solution.
Comment 11 Forgotten User l5QCzUHucG 2010-08-04 21:03:01 UTC
Norman,

You are right. Sorry I didn't read your comment carefully enough. Resizing the taskbar to be smaller than the actual width of the screen leaves it light-grey.
Looks actually quite nice...
Comment 12 Will Stephenson 2010-08-15 10:50:43 UTC
Just found this, duping to newer bug# as it is already in the maintenance planning.  The root cause is the same and the fix can be tested by installing KDE:Distro:Stable 's KDE 4.4.4 in the OBS.  If you just want a workaround, replace kdebase4-runtime-branding-openSUSE with kdebase4-runtime-branding-upstream.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 623459 ***