View mode buttons don't respect button fg color

Can confirm that it doesn't seem to respect ".button GtkImage"

Not sure if this is an issue in Granite or Files though

This is not a bug in Granite either.

For anybody interested on fixing this bug in pantheon files, it is related
to the style context passed to the method that creates icon pixbufs. A
faster solution would be using Gtk.Image.set_from_gicon or
Gtk.Image.set_from_icon_name to render the icons.
On Aug 12, 2013 12:05 PM, "Satyajit Sahoo" <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Public bug reported:
>
> The view mode buttons in pantheon files don't respect the button text
> color.
>
> For example, even if the following is specified in the theme,
>
> .button { color: @theme_fg_color; }
>
> The symbolic icons in view mode buttons are light.
>
> The only workaround seems to be,
>
> * { color: @theme_fg_color; }
>
> To reproduce the issue, remove the following part in gtk-widgets.css of
> egtk
>
> * { color: @text_color; }
>
> I've attached a screenshot using Numix theme.
>
> ** Affects: egtk
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
> ** Affects: granite
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
> ** Affects: pantheon-files
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
> ** Attachment added: "view-mode.png"
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1211440/+attachment/3769943/+files/view-mode.png
>
> ** Also affects: granite
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
> ** Also affects: egtk
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
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> Title:
> View mode buttons don't respect button fg color
>
> Status in The elementary GTK Theme:
> New
> Status in Granite Framework:
> New
> Status in Files:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> The view mode buttons in pantheon files don't respect the button text
> color.
>
> For example, even if the following is specified in the theme,
>
> .button { color: @theme_fg_color; }
>
> The symbolic icons in view mode buttons are light.
>
> The only workaround seems to be,
>
> * { color: @theme_fg_color; }
>
> To reproduce the issue, remove the following part in gtk-widgets.css
> of egtk
>
> * { color: @text_color; }
>
> I've attached a screenshot using Numix theme.
>
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I encounter exactly the same. Although I am using dark icons everywhere else, Pantheon icons are white and thus hardly to see.