[maverick] It is hard to read highlighted names of paused torrents in default desktop theme

Hi Ivan,

Thanks for reporting this issue. I'm not sure what you mean when you say Transmission uses one parameter but not others -- the cell render code for that list doesn't specify any colors at all, so it should all be coming from the theme. When you refer to parameters is there a specific piece of code that you're looking at, or are you referring to what you're seeing when you apply different themes to Transmission while running?

After looking through the code again, Transmission isn't using any custom colors at all. I think the issue you're seeing is coming from the theme rather than Transmission.

Reassigning to light-themes to get a second opinion from the themes camp.

Also, this appears to be similar to bug #536989.

Hi, Charles, sorry for being too vague. At the time I was writing this report I didn't look at the code, I just switched between few pre-installed Ubuntu themes and watched highlighted paused torrents in Transmission active window.

Now I realize that I've made a wrong guess about hardcoded foreground colour. Now I see that there is really nothing hardcoded except red color for torrents with errors.

I still think that you've got something to do with theme issue.

I've switched between all preinstalled Ubuntu themes and 4 out of 8 of them showed not very pleasant results(See attachment below). And if you won't count high-contrast themes which IMHO are rarely used, you'll get unpleasant result with 4/6 probability.

> I've switched between all preinstalled Ubuntu themes and 4 out of 8 of them showed not very pleasant results(See attachment below).

In that attachment, three of the four themes rely on the Murrine engine which is why I say this is similar to bug #536989.

> I still think that you've got something to do with theme issue.

I'm at a loss to see how. https://trac.transmissionbt.com/browser/trunk/gtk/torrent-cell-renderer.c is the Transmission code that does the renderering for these screenshots. As you can see, there are two GtkCellRendererTexts -- one for errors, and one for non-errors. In the error case we /do/ set the foreground to red, but that is the only place where any colors are set anywhere in the code. All other colors come from the theme.

> I'm at a loss to see how.
OK maybe It's a dumb idea, but you can calculate the difference between foreground and background color and change inherited foreground color if difference meets certain conditions. :)
Or you can rely on other colors of the theme...

Seriously, I'm not a fan of theme stuff and usually use defaults, but I saw exactly the same problem few times before on other machines with popular custom themes. And that was few years ago, probably before Murrine was developed.

Charles, I understand that it's not a serious issue at all and I didn't mean to waste your time. Transmission is a great application and I highly appreciate your work!

Ivan, you're not wasting my time. I'm just trying to make sure I get this ticket into the hands of people who can triage it properly. :)

This problem still happens?

@Fitoschido, I've just checked and the bug is still there. Don't know whether it's worth fixing if it only affects Maverick, but yes, it is there.

Hm. Well, at least this do not happen anymore in Oneiric (Transmission GTK3).

Fixed in 12.04 I think