Evolution black background in mail display

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

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Same here. But I'm using Ambiance the standard theme!

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

the issue has been fixed in https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-themes/13.04+14.04.20140217-0ubuntu1

Still an issue on my AMD64 machine. Got the mentioned version installed. Just fixed for i386 or not fixed at all?

Same problem on trusty amd64.

Fix at #8 only applies to Ubuntu themes Ambiance and Radiance.
I've taken a look at the diff, and successfully applied that to Adwaita in the following way:
mkdir ~/.themes/Adwaita
cd ~/.themes/Adwaita
cp -r /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0 .
cd gtk-3.0
then, edit gtk.css and leave as this -of course scisors do not belong to the file- (note the first line is the one it already existed. Also note, the same block should be added to gtk-black.css if you use the black version for Evolution):

---8<-----8<--------
@import url("resource:///org/gnome/adwaita/gtk-main.css");

/*****************************
 * FIX EVOLUTION BLACK EMAIL *
 *****************************/
GtkWindow {
     color: @theme_fg_color;
     background-color: @theme_bg_color;
 }
GtkPaned {
     color: @theme_fg_color;

    /* Evolution sets the background color of its mail window to the background
     * color of entries, but cannot handle background images. Setting the
     * background color here doesn't effect real entries, because
     * 'background-image' has precedence.
     */
     background-color: @theme_bg_color;
 }
----->8------->8-----

Thanks a lot for this tweaky fix. It's work with Zukitwo/Zukiwi too.

I made a patch from pato01's fix.

pato01's fix also working with Bluebird

Bug still exists when you open the email in it's own window. I.e. double click an email, a window popups containing just the email, and the problem persists.

Sorry, I forgot to note. The patch works, but ONLY for the preview email in the main evolution window.

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I have removed the patch flag from the attachement. But I don't know how to negate the "Fix released" flag on top of the page.

Also, although the bug disappears when you update the theme "gtk.css" and reset the theme, the bug appears again when you close Evolution window and open it again.

Manually patching this issue -- under the "Text Entry" Section, the background for the .entry class must also be added:

(extending pato101's suggested fix):
###########################################################

GtkWindow {
     color: @theme_fg_color;
     background-color: @theme_bg_color;
 }
GtkPaned {
     color: @theme_fg_color;
     background-color: @theme_bg_color;
 }
.entry {
    background-color: @theme_bg_color;
}

###########################################################

Freya (EOS) Users can use the attached .css file to replace their vanilla version stylesheet at /usr/share/themes/elementary/gtk-3.0/gtk-widgets.css

Cheers

I found this bug today in our downstream platform that is still using evolution 3.10.1, and thought it would be relevant to mention that this has been fixed usptream for bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=731872, and also that the patch from there applied cleanly on top of my 3.10.1, fixing the problem seamlessly for me too.

So, perhaps you could consider reverting the hack into the CSS files for those two themes (as it impacts GtkWindow and GtkPanel widgets in general) and just backporting that patch on evolution itself too.

My 2 cents

On other distributions based on Debian above won't work (mainly because you will not have elementary). This below resolves problem.

Find in your home holder .config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css and add:

/* Black on white for HTML messages in Evolution Reader/Composer */
/* adjust colour to your liking */
EMailView WebKitWebView, EMailReader WebKitWebView {
    color: #000fff;
    background-color: #fff000;
}

/*****************************
 * FIX EVOLUTION BLACK EMAIL *
 *****************************/
GtkWindow {
     color: @theme_fg_color;
     background-color: @theme_bg_color;
 }
GtkPaned {
     color: @theme_fg_color;

    /* Evolution sets the background color of its mail window to the background
     * color of entries, but cannot handle background images. Setting the
     * background color here doesn't effect real entries, because
     * 'background-image' has precedence.
     */
     background-color: @theme_bg_color;
 }