Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Ethereal uses incorrect default colours in Windows, visible u
Laurence Parry wrote:
> Hi there! I recently upgraded to Ethereal 0.10.11 and I had an
> immediate problem reading the results of captures - there was nothing
> displayed on the capture screen! Or so it seemed . . . in fact, there
> _was_ stuff there, but it could not be seen, as both the background
> and foreground colours were white.
>
> I use a program called WindowBlinds that allows the changing of user
> interfaces. One of the things it changes are the system colours. The
> Blackcomb skin - included with the default distribution of
> WindowBlinds at www.windowblinds.net - sets the button text colour to
> white, and button background to dark blue. Note that window text is
> still black and window backgrounds are still white. This text colour
> appears to be used in many places in Ethereal, including the capture
> window (where it should not be used, since that is a window).
>
> I suspect you are doing something like using the window background
> colour but the button foreground colour as a default, or just setting
> the background to white and assuming that the text must be black. This
> is incorrect. It would be good if you could alter this to force both
> background *and* foreground colours, if you are going to force one
> thing, or to use the correct combination of colours (ie, window text,
> not button text, with window background).
>
> I managed to work around the problem by setting a packet highlight
> filter of IP version = 4 foreground:black, background:white, but I'm
> guessing new users will not know to do that. This problem was not in
> 0.10.0, although I appreciate that doesn't really help narrow it down
> much. :-)
Hmmm, blind windows might be a better name ;-)))
I've tried that program a while ago and had lot's of programs with
coloring and other design problems, so this problem isn't unique to
Ethereal.
You might try disabling GTK-Wimp while installing, which does a lot of
color scheme things to look like the XP style and might have a problem
with WindowBlinds.
Regards, ULFL
