Ubuntu
light-themes package

hyperlink color in ambience should be darker in some programs

Bug #549760 reported by Uphaar Agrawalla
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This bug affects 6 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
light-themes (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
James Schriver

Bug Description

Binary package hint: light-themes

The hyperlink colors in some applications like Liferea are appearing in light color against a light background. This can also be seen in Firefox's 'download completed' sliding message which has a hyperlink to open the Downloads dialog.

I've opened this against light-themes, not sure if it is the theme or the individual applications which will need fixing.

And in Ubiquity > http://launchpadlibrarian.net/43336820/Links%20not%20very%20visible.png

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: light-themes 0.1.6.0
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-17.26-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-17-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Mar 27 18:23:35 2010
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: light-themes

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Uphaar Agrawalla (uphaar) wrote :
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Uphaar Agrawalla (uphaar) wrote :

Screenshot attached...

summary: - hyperlink color in ambience not readible in some programs
+ hyperlink color in ambience should be darker in some programs
James Schriver (dashua)
Changed in light-themes (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → James Schriver (dashua)
status: New → Fix Committed
Vish (vish)
Changed in light-themes (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
Vish (vish)
description: updated
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package light-themes - 0.1.6.4

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light-themes (0.1.6.4) lucid; urgency=low

  * Changing link color to fix LP: #549760
  [James Schriver]
  * Ambiance: Adjust sublety of metacity icons prelight
   - Colorize close icon prelight for added glow and pronounced prelight
  * Ambiance/Radiance: Adjust scrollbar lighting (LP: #542686).
   - Remove progressbar lightbordershade (LP: #551107).
   - Global trough_shades for scrollbar/progressbar
 -- Kenneth Wimer <email address hidden> Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:45:29 +0100

Changed in light-themes (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Ricardo Pérez López (ricardo) wrote :

I don't think that orange color was the best option for hyperlinks. In web browsers, orange hyperlinks means a visited link, so the user might be tempted to think that the GNOME desktop is behaving like a browser, showing all hyperlinks as visited and confusing the user. Blue might be a better solution.

However, on the other hand, orange hyperlinks shows great in the navigation history list of the Firefox address bar (much better than before, when it used blue links).

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Uphaar Agrawalla (uphaar) wrote :

I agree with Ricardo. The orange links look out of place with the regular black text.

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