Bug#562235: epiphany-browser: form inputs, div scrollbars should use page colors (default b/w) not desktop theme colors

[Mark Hedges]

Package: epiphany-browser
Version: 2.29.3-1
Severity: normal


Try choosing the built-in Darklooks theme from the Gnome
Appearance control panel.  All input elements are then colored
darkly.  The purpose of the web browser is to display web pages
as they are intended to appear.  The default for text and 
background is black on white (as it always should be) so the
default for inputs, buttons and scrolling div scrollbars should
also be black on white.  It uses the theme colors and with a 
dark window theme this makes normal pages look very bad.  
Incidentally in epiphany, if the input text element has a 
CSS border, then the background is white and text is black
like it should be, even though color and background of the
element are not styled.  But unstyled input elements look bad.
This is parallel to 549371 in Iceweasel.  It essentially makes
dark desktop themes annoying and unusable.  Thank you.  --mark--


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-maggie+9 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages epiphany-browser depends on:
ii  dbus-x11                    1.2.16-2     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  epiphany-browser-data       2.29.3-1     Data files for the GNOME web brows
ii  gnome-icon-theme            2.28.0-1     GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  iso-codes                   3.12-1       ISO language, territory, currency,
ii  libavahi-client3            0.6.25-2     Avahi client library
ii  libavahi-common3            0.6.25-2     Avahi common library
ii  libavahi-gobject0           0.6.25-2     Avahi GObject library
ii  libc6                       2.10.2-2     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                 1.2.16-2     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2            0.82-2       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgconf2-4                 2.28.0-1     GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgirepository1.0-0        0.6.5-4      Library for handling GObject intro
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.22.3-1     The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0           2.28.1-2     GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgtk2.0-0                 2.18.3-1     The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                     2:1.0.6-1    X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libnotify1 [libnotify1-gtk2 0.4.5-1      sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  libnspr4-0d                 4.8.2-1      NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii  libnss3-1d                  3.12.4-1     Network Security Service libraries
ii  libpango1.0-0               1.26.1-1     Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libseed0                    2.28.0-2     GObject JavaScript bindings for th
ii  libsm6                      2:1.1.1-1    X11 Session Management library
ii  libsoup-gnome2.4-1          2.28.1-3     an HTTP library implementation in 
ii  libsoup2.4-1                2.28.1-3     an HTTP library implementation in 
ii  libwebkit-1.0-2             1.1.17-2     Web content engine library for Gtk
ii  libx11-6                    2:1.3.2-1    X11 client-side library
ii  libxml2                     2.7.6.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library
ii  libxslt1.1                  1.1.26-1     XSLT processing library - runtime 

Versions of packages epiphany-browser recommends:
ii  yelp                     2.28.0+webkit-1 Help browser for GNOME

Versions of packages epiphany-browser suggests:
pn  mozplugger                    <none>     (no description available)

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