Bug#673325: vlc: unreadable black text on dark blue background

[Vincent Lefevre]

reopen 673325
found 673325 2.0.5-1
thanks

On 2013-02-05 20:00:07 +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> That seems like a problem with your Qt theme. I fail to see a VLC bug here.

It doesn't seem that I have a particular Qt theme (I've never changed
any config about that). The problem is still reproducible, even after
removing the ~/.config/vlc directory.

The strace output has:

xvii:~> grep theme strace.out
21823 open("/home/vinc17/.icons/default/index.theme", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
21823 open("/usr/share/icons/default/index.theme", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
21823 open("/usr/share/pixmaps/default/index.theme", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
21823 lstat("/home/vinc17/.icons/hicolor/index.theme", 0x7f28a69cdec0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
21823 lstat("/usr/local/share/icons/hicolor/index.theme", 0x7f28a69cdec0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
21823 lstat("/usr/share/icons/hicolor/index.theme", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=24671, ...}) = 0
21823 lstat("/usr/share/icons/hicolor/index.theme", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=24671, ...}) = 0
21823 lstat("/usr/share/icons/hicolor/index.theme", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=24671, ...}) = 0
21823 open("/usr/share/icons/hicolor/index.theme", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 10
21823 stat("/usr/share/icons/hicolor/index.theme", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=24671, ...}) = 0
21823 open("/home/vinc17/.icons/default/index.theme", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
21823 open("/usr/share/icons/default/index.theme", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
21823 open("/usr/share/pixmaps/default/index.theme", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
21823 open("/home/vinc17/.icons/default/index.theme", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
21823 open("/usr/share/icons/default/index.theme", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
21823 open("/usr/share/pixmaps/default/index.theme", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

Note: I've tried with other Qt software, djview4 and serna, and in
both cases, when something is selected, the background is dark blue
(like with VLC), but the foreground text is white, while in VLC it is
black (thus unreadable). So, it seems to be a problem specific to VLC.

If you still think it is a problem with Qt, and not VLC, the bug
should be reassigned to the right Qt package, not closed.

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