Ubuntu
yaru-theme package

Text Editor (geditunusable with yaru-dark

Bug #1884124 reported by tylerecouture on 2020-06-18

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1857191: Dark themes don't work well with highlighted current line in gedit. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	yaru-theme (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

1) The release of Ubuntu you are using, via 'lsb_release -rd' or System -> About Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Release: 20.04

2) The version of the package you are using, via 'apt-cache policy pkgname' or by checking in Software Center

gedit:
  Installed: 3.36.2-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 3.36.2-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
*** 3.36.2-0ubuntu1 500
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.36.1-1 500
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages

3) What you expected to happen
gedit/Text Editor to look nice and usable in yaru-dark (Settings > Appearance > Dark)

4) What happened instead
Highlighted line is unreadable. It highlights in white but the text is very light gray! The cursor is almost impossible to see as well.

See original description

Revision history for this message

tylerecouture (tylerecouture) wrote on 2020-06-18:

gedit in yaru dark theme Edit (44.3 KiB, image/png)

description:

updated

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Paul White (paulw2u) wrote on 2020-06-18:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1857191, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report.

Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.