preferences dialog shows wrong look in evolution

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Steps:

1- Use gnome-color-chooser or edit your .gtkrc-2.0 to change your panel color. For instance, put the following lines in a file named .gtkrc-2.0 in your home directory:

style "gnome-color-chooser-panel"
{
  bg[NORMAL] = "#999999"
  fg[NORMAL] = "#ff0000"
}
class "*Panel*" style "gnome-color-chooser-panel"
widget "*PanelWidget*" style "gnome-color-chooser-panel"
widget "*PanelApplet*" style "gnome-color-chooser-panel"
class "*Tray*" style "gnome-color-chooser-panel"
widget "*Tray*" style "gnome-color-chooser-panel"

2- Logout and login to see the changes (depending on what theme you are using, your panel might not change)

3- Open evolution and go to the preferences dialog. Select the third option. It will be gray with red letters (as your panel). The rest of the dialog is OK.

By the way, some other things use wrong colors. For instance, nm-applet menus in the notification area are OK, but rhythmbox right-click menu in that area has panel colors instead of menu colors. The dialog to create a new personalized launcher has panel colors too. I know this is not tha same bug, but see the attachment.

There is a bug upstream about that on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=549213

This cosmetic bug is still present under Ubuntu 9.04.

The Mail Preferences option in the preferences is the only part of the whole preferences dialog to use completely different colours for the text.

Attached is how I see it using the New Wave colour theme. Choose any other area of the preferences and the text is black.

...and is still present under Ubuntu 9.10.

still present in Karmic, found with New Wave default theme !!

PS : This bug is only seen in the "mail preferences" (3rd) tab, other tabs are ok.

This bug is even worse in the version of evolution that came with Karmic.

In addition to the "Mail Preferences" tab using the wrong font colour, I also noticed since upgrading to karmic, I can't read the "Save As" button (when an email message has an attachment) because it now also uses the wrong font colour!

I can confirm this too. Why the developers are doing this thing wrong?? I can't get it.

As indicated in GNOME bug 549213, commenting out line 4989 in New Wave's gtkrc (the one about a widget_class *Mail*) solved this problem for me.

I believe this is a bug in gnome-themes-ubuntu (which I couldn't locate on launchpad).

I used the match "*Panel*Mail*" and it works indeed. Thanks for the help!

I'll release this in the next version of the theme.

I can still reproduce the bug with fully updated system (karmic in use).

the 'save as' wrong look

no problems here but...

look at these options...

Can you tell me which version of the theme you are using? I suggest it is 0.8.1. Can you try downloading 0.8.2 and tell me if there is still a problem?

Here's a link:
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/New+Wave?content=87134

May you tell me please, which one of these
                (New Wave Pack)
  (New Wave GDM)
  (New Wave GDM List)
  (Lock-Dialog Theme)
  (Alternative Metacity)
  (Alternative "Key" Metacity)
  (New Wave XFWM Theme)
  (Alternative XFWM theme (by Steve Dodier))
  (Perfect Wave Emerald theme (by Zuil Nossile))
  (Opera Theme (by Kyle Baker))
  (Google Chrome Theme (by Lasse Valentini)

I should install?

You should download the first one (New Wave Pack). Install the gtp files by double clicking.

The pack also includes a program called New Wave Configurator (it is .deb file) . With it you can check the version of your installed themes.

Btw: Можеш да ми пишеш и на български ако ти е по лесно :)

Разбира се, че ми е по-лесно, благодаря ти. Сега ще видя, какво мога да направя по-въпроса, но сигурно си прав, че ползвам по-старата версия (защото ползвам само "оригиналните" пакети, които си идват с Убунту-то).

Абсолютно прав! Проблемът е разрешен идеално, благодаря ти отново.
Един последен въпрос свързан със Скайп... когато използвам "Dark Sand", доста от менютата са напълно черни, но текстът също е черен и не може нищичко да се прочете.
Мислиш ли, че трябва да отворя нов доклад за бъг в "Dark Sand" темичката или това че скайп е close-source, докладът ще бъде отхлърлен? (:

Аз мисля, че проблемът с Dark Sand трябва да бъде споменат (докладван) на хората, които го поддържат. Все пак ако проблема не е техен те ще те уведомят, но ако е при тях (както може би е) те трябва да се постараят и да го оправят.

Благодаря ти, че се постара да помогнеш при решаването на проблема с Evolution! Ако има нещо друго което забележиш докладвай пък аз ще видя дали мога да го оправя ;)

И така за нашата неразбираща публика: So the problem is solved.

It is not 'invalid' but 'fixed' in the latest version of the New Wave theme.

not a bug in evolution though its fixed by the theme :)