Originally by: Sakari Orisi

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Edited by: Sakari Orisi on 02/12/2010 09:10:01
Edited by: Sakari Orisi on 02/12/2010 08:36:35

Originally by: Apollo Gabriel

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Edited by: Apollo Gabriel on 02/12/2010 03:29:33
EDIT: Added Clarity

Originally by: Rank Badjin

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Edited by: Rank Badjin on 02/12/2010 00:50:58

Installed and running on Ubuntu. Works well but I have an issue with appearance. The left hand pane on pyfa on my system is displaying the characters in a grey font that is so light as to be unreadable. This may not be a pyfa issue, it may be my system config since I have a similar issue with google desktop's pull out windows displaying the same way. This only occurs on the "Ship" tab in that pane, the "Market" tab is fine. The tab title of the loadout in the right hand pane has a similar issue.

I have tried all the system settings I can find but none seem to affect either the background of that pane or the font displayed in it. ANY help would be appreciated.

Kudos for implementing this in Python btw, I have really missed not having access to EFT on Ubuntu.


This "appears" to be a GTK tooltip issue, but I am still not able to resolve it using gtk-config.

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Could you please also get on our IRC so we can look into this with more detail ?

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Sorry, but I am not much into social clients even one as old as IRC. I did attempt it, but received a "network error", I don't have time to play with something I never use to figure out what is broken...so I will have to try to work this out here in the forum.

First of all, a more precise description of the problem. Looking at your published screenshots from the stable release, all panes of the GUI have a grey background. Mine does not. I am using Ubuntu Meerkat with the DarkRoom Theme. (I have tried others.) This produces a window that looks like yours but the left hand pane is white and the right hand pane is grey. The left hand pane does not change no matter how I fiddle with gtk settings. The right hand pane does change according to gtk settings. So I conclude that whatever controls gtk also controls wxWidgets appearance to some degree.

The left hand pane has two tabs, one is labeled Ships and the other Market (I am guessing, the titles on the tabs are grey on grey as and nigh unreadable as well). The Market tab produces a white background and black text, no problems there. The Ships tab produces a white background, a column of very small icons, and extremely light grey text in a very small font that is unreadable. In the right hand pane, the background is grey, the text is readable for the most part, the exception being the titles on the tabs. A newly selected tab is totally unreadable since it is grey on grey, a saved tab is a different color font (more red) that is at least visible.

I browsed through the source and a some of the other posts in this thread and the older thread for 0.90 as well. I am familiar with GTK Widgets but it seems you are using wxWidgets for this build, I am not certain of the reasoning behind the change, but the behaviour appears to be governed by the same constraints as GTK so I am assuming a common failure point. My evidence for this is that I am running Google's Desktop Sidebar and it exhibits identical behaviour on the popouts (which I am fairly certain are tooltips). According to the default settings for Ubuntu, this would be a very light yellow background with light grey text...lots of complaints from users on that.

Your code shows no obvious calls to anything except wxWidgets, leaving me clueless on how to change this behaviour.

Rank


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