article area text does not change accoring to theme

Binary package hint: liferea

1.
johan@aspire:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10

2.
johan@aspire:~$ apt-cache policy liferea
liferea:
  Installed: 1.4.18-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 1.4.18-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 1.4.18-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://aspire.hrdinamik.co.za intrepid/main Packages # through apt-cacher: ubuntu.mirror.ac.za
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

3.
When applying a new theme, all the colours should be as set out by the Appearance dialog.

4.
Inside Liferea, all the colours changed correctly as it was set in the Appearance dialog, except for the bottom-right-hand area, where the article, author and additional information are displayed. The text in the header area for that "article area" continues to show black text where it should change to the colour from the theme, like the rest of Liferea does.