Create partition: FS and mount point lists not legible

Bug #830923 reported by Jean-Baptiste Lallement
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This bug affects 5 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Evan
Oneiric
Fix Released
High
Evan
Precise
Fix Released
High
Evan

Bug Description

Oneiric Desktop 20110821

On the "Create Partition" dialog, filesystem and mount point lists are grey on dark grey and are not legible.
The enclosed screenshot shows the filesystem list.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: ubiquity (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-8.11-generic 3.0.1
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Aug 22 10:46:06 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-07-12 (40 days ago)

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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Oneiric):
importance: Undecided → High
assignee: nobody → Canonical Foundations Team (canonical-foundations)
summary: - Create partition: FS and mount point list not readable
+ Create partition: FS and mount point lists not readable
tags: added: regression-release
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Oneiric):
assignee: Canonical Foundations Team (canonical-foundations) → Evan Dandrea (ev)
status: New → Confirmed
summary: - Create partition: FS and mount point lists not readable
+ Create partition: FS and mount point lists not legible
description: updated
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Erick Brunzell (lbsolost) wrote :

This effects not only the FS and mount point pop-downs but also the grub-install pop down. I'm fairly sure that changing to white text would fix this after making a comparison with gparted which also uses a dark background that changes to orange when moused over.

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Stéphane Graber (stgraber) wrote :

I found the code that's causing it but not a way of fixing it.

        provider.load_from_data('''#live_installer,
#page_title,
#install_progress_text,
#install_details_expander {
color : @dark_fg_color;
background-color : @dark_bg_color;
}

* {
color : @fg_color
}''')

in customize_installer() in gtk_ui.py.

The part breaking the ComboBoxes is:
* {
color: @fg_color
}

The fix would be to match the ComboBoxes with something like:
GtkComboBox.combobox-entry * {
color: @dark_fg_color;
}

I spent around 2 hours trying a few different Gtk widgets, quite successfully managing to break the whole Ubiquity UI but never found which would apply to the combobox entries...

Hope someone else knows how to do that as documentation is sadly close to non-existent.

tags: added: iso-testing
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Oneiric):
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 2.7.21

---------------
ubiquity (2.7.21) oneiric; urgency=low

  [ Stéphane Graber ]
  * Explicitly bind "activate-link" as it seems to be the only way to actually
    catch that signal. (LP: #830895)
  * If the user didn't select a photo, just continue without configuring it.
    (LP: #836934)
  * Instead of forcing the color on all elements, only do it for elements
    where it's actually required. Fixes weird backgrounds in ComboBoxes (LP: #830923)
  * Set a maximum install size of 8GB as long as the user still has 20% of free
    space. (LP: #771401)

  [ Evan Dandrea ]
  * Set the timezone location to the default (LP: #830940).
  * Automatic update of included source packages: user-setup
    1.28ubuntu19.
 -- Evan Dandrea <email address hidden> Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:16:54 +0100

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Oneiric):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Brad Figg (brad-figg)
tags: added: rls-mgr-o-tracking
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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

Reopening. It regressed in Precise

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Precise):
status: Fix Released → Triaged
tags: added: qa-manual-testing rls-mgr-p-tracking
removed: rls-mgr-o-tracking
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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

fixed in Precise

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Precise):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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