kmess-1.5 invisible text in nicklist

[J]

Using a dark-coloured KDE theme (e.g. Dark-blue), the text in the nickname list of KMess appears almost invisible:


Gentoo bug 210984

[Valerio]

Mmm. The contact list in KMess 1.5 should override the colors to always display black text on white background.. but it obviously isn't working! You will find a fix for this in version 1.5.1, and it's already there if you download from SVN (only on trunk ATM)! Thank you very much for reporting!
What's strange is, that I do use a dark theme myself, but the 'Standard Text' color is dark enough for this issue to go unnoticed. You can alter that KDE color - then restart KMess - as a workaround until 1.5.1 is released

Ps. KMess 2 will honor your theme's colors.

[darth_suicune]

I thought about another workaround for this, that was just changing the background of the contact list (altering the image itself ) and what was my surprise when i saw this



Just quite weird

Selecting any item would make it look ok, but just when selected, after selecting another one, the first goes ... weird again

Thanks for your work, love this msn client

[Valerio]

auhauhah.. you've discovered our dirty, dirty hack to enable usage of transparent HTML on the contact list
It will fortunately be removed with kmess2... but for now we're all stuck to black-on-white, I'm sorry

[darth_suicune]

I'm a genius, i discovered the trick .... ... ...

Still no prob, if you get a workaround for the problem with the white text with white back, there's no problem Hope you get it into 1.5.1 as i used the 1.5pre2 a while ago and i remember the problem was solved there

Keep up the good work guys

[J]

Yes, this is fixed in KMess 1.5.1. Thanks.

[Valerio]

You're welcome!