Public bug reported: A slight usability issue, certainly because of the default empathy color theme. On the contact list, when using the drop-dowm menu to set your status ("Available", "Busy"...), the text color is dark grey on a black background. Unless you are lucky to use a monitor with strong backlight, this is obviously not the wisest choice for readability. Hoovering the menu entries with the mouse does reveal the text better (orange background with white text) but this is not intuitive at first.
Proposed solution : Instead, the color layout in the drop-down menu of the contact list should be set to white font on dark background as it is for the Me Menu under the mail icon. One might argue that people are more likely to use the Me Menu instead of the contact list. Still, this fix will bring a little more consistancy between all the available options for the user. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: empathy 3.4.2.3-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-29.46-generic 3.2.24 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-29-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu12 Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Aug 16 10:06:40 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB:en TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: empathy UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) ** Affects: empathy (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug precise running-unity -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to empathy in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1037457 Title: inappropriate color theme in the contact list Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: A slight usability issue, certainly because of the default empathy color theme. On the contact list, when using the drop-dowm menu to set your status ("Available", "Busy"...), the text color is dark grey on a black background. Unless you are lucky to use a monitor with strong backlight, this is obviously not the wisest choice for readability. Hoovering the menu entries with the mouse does reveal the text better (orange background with white text) but this is not intuitive at first. Proposed solution : Instead, the color layout in the drop-down menu of the contact list should be set to white font on dark background as it is for the Me Menu under the mail icon. One might argue that people are more likely to use the Me Menu instead of the contact list. Still, this fix will bring a little more consistancy between all the available options for the user. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: empathy 3.4.2.3-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-29.46-generic 3.2.24 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-29-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu12 Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Aug 16 10:06:40 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB:en TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: empathy UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/1037457/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp