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jackbuehner / gmail-dark-modifications

Customizable Dark Theme for Gmail
https://github.com/jackbuehner/gmail-dark-modifications/raw/master/gmail-dark.less.user.css
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Black text in dark reply box #1

Closed hermitical closed 5 years ago

hermitical commented 5 years ago

Hi Jack

Please forgive me if this is the incorrect place to ask for help.

I've been using this via Stylish for a while but then realised on reading that installing the usercss allowed further tweaking. All has been great but on both installations I have an issue where the font colour in a reply is black, on an already dark background it is very hard to read. Also, tweaking the 'Dark theme in email body' option does not help.

I thought the configuration options on the usercss installation would be the answer but if it is there I can't find it!

I'm on Windows 8.1, Firefox 65.0b7 (64-bit)

Thanks for any help you can give....

hermitical commented 5 years ago

Also, the search box towards the top of the page is invisible until you click in it. When the page first loads it is grey but then reverts to black within seconds, then, when you click in the box, a border is shown.

I realise that area of the page is default set to transparent so I could change it to 'Accent color' making it clearer to see but that is quite ugly to look at. It would be nicer to look at if it could either remain grey as on loading or keep the border.

I should confirm I am using a dark Firefox theme but changing it, including to the 'Light' theme, does not make any difference to either of these scenarios.

jackbuehner commented 5 years ago

This is the correct place for help! If I understand correctly, you are saying the body text that you type in the reply section is not themed, but I do not have this issue on any of my devices (see image below). image Have you tried reinstalling the style (and remove the old one from userstyles.org)? If that does not work, does it work for you in a different browser? It is working properly for me on the same version of Firefox (but Windows 10), but perhaps there is an extension causing issues. Please let me know if that helps, and if it does not, we can do some additional troubleshooting.

I apologize for the delay in response; I was in an area without internet for the past two weeks.

hermitical commented 5 years ago

Hi, no worries for the delay - happy holidays!

I've reinstalled on Firefox but the problem is the same (it isn't just in reply, it is in compose as well). I've installed on Chrome but again the same problem, and I have a lot less extensions on Chrome as I never really use it. I disabled all extensions except for Stylus in Chrome and the problem remains.

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hermitical commented 5 years ago

Ok, problem solved-ish!

I never thought to check the gmail settings. Even though the 'To' and 'Subject' fields were a visible colour I was wrong to assume this would be the same colour in the composition field. Changing the font colour in those settings from dark to light has made it readable.

I don't know why the colour choice doesn't affect all text input fields but there we go!

Thank you for your time on both of these issues :)

hermitical commented 5 years ago

Actually, not solved fully.

Changing the colour to a light white or pale grey meant that people reading my replies in a 'normal' white background view, such as Outlook, could not see the text without highlighting it. So I have chosen a midway grey and will see how that goes.

I presumed the font colour of an email would be for my view and would somehow magically turn into the correct colour for whatever the recipient would be using. As when I replied from Outlook (using black) Gmail changed it to a readable grey.

So confusing!

jackbuehner commented 5 years ago

I wonder if the CSS on your end is different. Can you:

  1. Clear the font color in settings
  2. Type some text in a reply field
  3. Right click that text and choose 'Inspect Element'
  4. Send a screenshot of all of the styles (on the rules tab)

That can help me figure out what is going on and possibly what I can do to fix it.

hermitical commented 5 years ago

I think we've stumbled on a solution!

As soon as I removed formatting in 'Default text style' I noticed a difference.

On the settings it now looks like this: Image

But in the reply field it is inversed and looks like this: Image

So what you see is not what you get!

I think I had changed the font colour some time before installing your theme.

Thank you for your patience Jack....

jackbuehner commented 5 years ago

I'm glad it's fixed! I'll keep that in mind if anyone else has that issue.