Appearance

["Dr. Martin Senftleben" <li...@drmartinus.de>]

Hi,

I have a long history with OpenOffice (I started actually with 
StarWriter), and at some point of time I switched to LibreOffice (I 
think many did), but there it seems that they introduce new features too 
quickly, because with them, new bugs come in and make it quite difficult 
to use. Since I do not need most of the new features, I have decided to 
go back to OpenOffice, and it seems to work quite well in spite of the 
fact, that most of my documents had been treated by LibreOffice for a 
long time. Even an extensively used database seems to work fine.

Now, I have a simple yet important problem: The appearance of OO is 
strange. While most of it (icons etc.) are ok, the text in the menus and 
dialog boxes is not black, but grey and hence difficult to read 
(background also grey), particularly for a person who has some 
sight-problems like me. On screenshots I always see that the menu text 
is black, which I would prefer. I haven't found any place where I can 
set it. There is an "appearance" item in the options tool, but that 
doesn't seem to have any effect. There is an option in the General 
section for font color, but the combobox next to it says "automatic" and 
the colorbox besides that is black, so I would think that text is 
selected as black. Probably this section does not apply to the overall 
appearance of OO. There is a scheme selector, but only the OpenOffice 
scheme is selectable.
Any ideas how I can change that? Other apps have all the proper font 
color (black).

Regards,
Martin

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Re: Appearance

[Rory O'Farrell <of...@iol.ie>]

On Thu, 8 Dec 2022 11:37:32 +0100
"Dr. Martin Senftleben" <li...@drmartinus.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a long history with OpenOffice (I started actually with 
> StarWriter), and at some point of time I switched to LibreOffice (I 
> think many did), but there it seems that they introduce new features too 
> quickly, because with them, new bugs come in and make it quite difficult 
> to use. Since I do not need most of the new features, I have decided to 
> go back to OpenOffice, and it seems to work quite well in spite of the 
> fact, that most of my documents had been treated by LibreOffice for a 
> long time. Even an extensively used database seems to work fine.
> 
> Now, I have a simple yet important problem: The appearance of OO is 
> strange. While most of it (icons etc.) are ok, the text in the menus and 
> dialog boxes is not black, but grey and hence difficult to read 
> (background also grey), particularly for a person who has some 
> sight-problems like me. On screenshots I always see that the menu text 
> is black, which I would prefer. I haven't found any place where I can 
> set it. There is an "appearance" item in the options tool, but that 
> doesn't seem to have any effect. There is an option in the General 
> section for font color, but the combobox next to it says "automatic" and 
> the colorbox besides that is black, so I would think that text is 
> selected as black. Probably this section does not apply to the overall 
> appearance of OO. There is a scheme selector, but only the OpenOffice 
> scheme is selectable.
> Any ideas how I can change that? Other apps have all the proper font 
> color (black).
> 
> Regards,
> Martin

It would be helpful to know your operating system - I think it to  be linux, but would like precise information as to version. 

-- 
Rory O'Farrell <of...@iol.ie>

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