GNOME Color Chooser breaks colors on Evolution Mail Preferences

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At a minimum, we need:
1. the specific steps or actions you took that caused you to encounter the problem,
2. the behavior you expected, and
3. the behavior you actually encountered (in as much detail as possible).

To reproduce:
1. Install GNOME Color Chooser
2. Change the normal foreground color on the panel section
3. Start up Evolution
4. Go to the preferences
5. Look at Composer Preferences -- everything looks normal
6. Look at Mail Preferences -- a lot of the text matches the panel text instead of the normal text color

What's wrong:
Text matches panel foreground

What should happen:
Text matches other text

do you have a way to trigger the bug without using GNOME color chooser? that seems to be a bug in this application rather

You're right Sebastian. GNOME Color Chooser adds the settings to *Mail* in the .gtkrc-2.0-gnome-color-chooser, so regularly setting the panel fg from a theme doesn't affect it.

This behavior (workaround for some broken themes) has been fixed in trunk and will be released along version 0.2.4.

Thank you very much!

GNOME Color Chooser 0.2.4 released which includes the fix ;-)

Remarked bug as "Fix Committed" (from "Fix Released") as version 0.2.4 has not reached Ubuntu yet. Maybe someone could sync 0.2.4-1 from Debian?

I have the same issue in Evolution from Gnome 2.24.0 in Intrepid Ibex but a different way of producing it.

1. Click on System -> Appearance->Customize Theme->Colors
2. Change the color of "Selected Items"
3. View the color is displaying in Evolution -> Edit -> Preferences -> Mail Preferences

The resulting problem is the same as the OP but different way of achieving it not using "Gnome Color Choose"

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-color-chooser - 0.2.4-1

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gnome-color-chooser (0.2.4-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * new upstream release
    - license is now GNU GPL3+
    - strip down indirect dependencies by using LDFLAGS="-Wl,--as-needed"
      by default (if linker supports it)
  * new homepage URL ( http://gnomecc.sourceforge.net ) (Closes: #493648)
  * panel settings don't affect evolution's mail settings dialog anymore
    (LP: #219460)
  * bumped Debian Policy Standards-Version to 3.8.0 (no changes needed)

 -- Ubuntu Archive Auto-Sync <email address hidden> Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:23:51 +0000

This bug has nothing to do with the bug that was in the gnome-color-chooser! It can also be replicated by editing the gtk rc file directly. The OP bug still exists, and is actually worse in the version of evolution that comes with Karmic 9.10. The OP described the bug perfectly. In Evolution Preferences the "Mail Preferences" tab is using the wrong font colour! It is using the gnome-panel font colour instead of the correct application font colour. It should not be using the gnome-panel font colour. It should be using the same application font colour as all of the other Preferences tabs are correctly using.

This bug, it's a spreading virus... It's worse in the version of evolution that comes with Karmic, because for example, when a message has an attachment the "Save As" button is now also using the wrong font colour.

I solved the problem in my case. There was a *Mail* widget class reference in one of the gtk rc script files that I found to change my gnome panel to a dark colour. This must make the gtk engine change more widget classes than are intended. I simply commented out the line that starts with:

widget_class "*Mail*" style

e.g. in my case, it was a file named "panel_black-plastic.rc" that had a line which read:

widget_class "*Mail*" style "panel-black"

I just commented that line out, by putting a # in front of it, now that line looks like the following:

#widget_class "*Mail*" style "panel-black"

This solved both the attachments area issues and the Mail Preferences tab issues.

Hope this helps anyone else with a similar theme problem.