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Known problems with the NewHuman theme

Add any problems you find with apps when using the [http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/NewHuman NewHuman] theme, perhaps with a nice screenshot to visually explain the problem but do make sure to go through the list before adding duplicates.

Note that many of these problems may be due to the theme itself. This page is not intended to point fingers but rather to collect information. If you have any knowledge as to why the problem occurs please add it as a note to the problem(s) in question.

Comments on the viability of using a dark theme do not belong here! This page is only for information gathering, not artistic opinions.

List

• Gedit
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    • For some strange reason gedit uses the input box bg color instead of the normal document bg color. We can set a theme that makes it usable with the darker bg but I am not sure if we really want to give people a text editor with a dark bg

    • The same bug is reported in my case in Eclipse Editor. So override gedit theme is not a good idea. [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lizardking Lizardking]

• compiz settings
  • attachment:darktheme_compizsettings2.png

    • Neil J. Patel mentioned that one can add gtk definitions (something like GtkWidget::link-color=@fg_color, GtkWidget::visited-link-color = shade (0.2, @fg_color)) for these colors in the gtkrc. I am now adding this to the newest version which will be in the sponsoring queue tomorrow (and therefor updated within a couple of days at the most)

• Pidgin
  • attachment:pidgin_newhuman.png
• amule
• vlc (as this is being ported to QT this will not be a problem in the future)
• xchat-gnome
• rhythmbox
• Nautilus
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    • Spinner is black on dark-grey-brown
    attachment:darktheme_nautilus_grayed_out_elements.png
    • Some grayed out elements in toolbar are difficult to notice. This happens for grayed text in buttons, and specially for history buttons (the lone angles pointing down). On the other side, grayed out icons themselves are ok.
    attachment:darktheme_nautilus_toolbar_separators.png
    • Toolbar separators (those vertical lines that separate button groups) are difficult to see.
    attachment:darktheme_nautilus_arrow_in_name_column.png
    • In list mode, column header for Name has an arrow at its right that's barely noticeable (this arrow shows the sorting in use for file names, and changes when clicking the column header).
    • Scrollbar color is hard to distinguish from its background, specially when scrolling a directory with lots of files (many times I miss where the scrollbar is positioned, and its size is hard to tell).
    attachment:darktheme_nautilus_scroll_bars_and_resizer.png
    • (Now I'm being too picky) The little decoration in the middle of scrollbars is difficult to notice, as well as the central decoration in resizer (the vertical border between panels in Nautilus). I think these two are not very important, but anyway...
• Thunderbird - Text on new mail notification popup is not readable.
  • attachment:newhuman_thunderbird.png
• gTranslator - Box on right side is white and selected area (red color) is animated
  • attachment:newhuman_gtranslator.png
• F-Spot - icons is grey
  • attachment:newhuman_f-spot.png