LIbreoffice color mess - white menu on white background - no red color in calc

[dyle71]

#!/bin/hi *

I pinned my question here since I didn't sense anywhere it could fit in. I switched recently from Kubuntu 16.10 to Kubuntu 17.04 and libreoffice ghosts are haunting me again. =(

I'd like to solve this once for all: libreoffice messes up colors.

* application colors: when hovering with the mouse over the menus I get a white menu entry on a white background...
* in libreoffice calc text colors are ignored, though they are rendered correctly on print or pdf. E.g. setting a cell text value to lets say "yellow" will be still drawn in black.
and some other quirks.

I use the default KDE breeze settings on my desktop. I set the GTK2 and GTK3 to use breeze. I do not use any Firefrox themes in Libreoffice but use the default look, no themes. The KDE colors are breeze. Only my plasma environment is set to breeze-dark but changing this to normal breeze does not change a bit.

I checked https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...eoffice+colors, https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...eoffice+colors and https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...eoffice+colors to no avail.

I kicked all other libreoffice styles but galaxy (which seems essential) and breeze.

Firefox and Gimp behave normally: correct background colors in the application's menu.

I remember things working properly in Kubuntu 16.10.

What can I do?

Any help appreciated.

Cheers, dyle.

[dyle71]

Ha! Just kicked ~/.config/libreoffice and colors at least within the spreadsheets are back again! (Ok, did some additional cleanup in ~/.config and ~/.local too which could also have some impact).

Nevertheless, I still got white text on white background when hovering with the mouse over application menus.

[simonsaysthis]

Glad you made some progress on this. In the past I found on various distros that Libreoffice is super sensitive to theme colour changes. Most often this happens to dark themes which is why I am often not able to use them. For example I wish that with Breeze Dark libre would still maintain the standard colour scheme not the dark application background. All I want is a dark taskbar

[dyle71]

All I want is a dark taskbar

+1

I'm happy with the normal breeze, but the taskbar should be dark.

[Bings]

Glad you made some progress on this. In the past I found on various distros that Libreoffice is super sensitive to theme colour changes. Most often this happens to dark themes which is why I am often not able to use them. For example I wish that with Breeze Dark libre would still maintain the standard colour scheme not the dark application background. All I want is a dark taskbar

If you go to the workspace theme section setting and select "breeze dark" in the Desktop Theme section, that changes the taskbar (Panels) but not the rest.

[dyle71]

Oh, I know. That's not a problem. I just added to the comment about been happy with a dark taskbar. My KDE desktop is nice and shiny. Using the normal breeze as window decoration but the dark version for plasma.

Libreoffice is also doing well, besides have this slight annoying fact, that I cannot see what menu option label is quite under the mouse when hovering. :P

It's not a blocker. It just looks ... awkward. None of all my other installed applications do that, including Firefox and Gimp.