Using High Contrast theme, gnome-panel menu text appears black on black

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Okay, any thoughts about adding this fix to Precise in the form of an SRU? Precise + GNOME Panel can be a sensible choice as an accessible desktop operating system for an elderly user, for example, and currently this one bug is in the way.

Yeah, absolutely. It looks like http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-themes-standard/commit/?id=858a82f03701e98a72a is the relevant commit. Do you want to put that into a patch and try it out if it works?

Sure, I can do that!

I'm uploading a branch right now with the fix applied to High Contrast and High Contrast Inverse. I'm attaching screenshots of the fix, running on the 12.04 Live CD, with each of those themes. As well as fixing readability, it also makes the panel a little tidier looking in each case.

Note the missing icons in High Contrast Inverse. I believe that is filed in a different bug report.

Thanks! Could you add "before" screenshots also? And use the template at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Procedure to update this bug's description.

Marking as "High" since it impacts the accessibility of gnome-panel which is included in Edubuntu 12.04 LTS.

I uploaded this to precise-proposed, pending acceptance.

Hello Dylan, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gnome-themes-standard into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-themes-standard/3.4.1-0ubuntu1.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please change the bug tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not, change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

That SRU is waiting to be verified for several weeks, is there any chance you could try the update and confirm if it solves the issue for you (so it can be moved to -updates)?

This does solve it for me, but then we should probably have someone else verify it. Who should I nudge to try this out? :)

The verification of this Stable Release Update has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regresssions.

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-themes-standard - 3.4.1-0ubuntu1.2

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gnome-themes-standard (3.4.1-0ubuntu1.2) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/02_fix-high_contrast_panel.patch:
    - Cherrypicked fix for gnome-panel with high contrast themes
      (LP: #1042470)
 -- Dylan McCall <email address hidden> Sat, 22 Sep 2012 16:55:49 -0700