[BUG]: inconsistent font color in gnome shell in the light mode preset

[xcpky]

Describe the bug it seems that the font color (black or white) is inconsistent. And the bug happens in light mode preset. For Latin characters and numbers it's black, but for icons and Chinese characters it's white. One thing that might be related: in the light mode preset with auto FG color on, in the bar all the icons are black while the Latin font is white.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior: enable all the options for gnome shell sections. auto FG color enabled for the issue that might be related.

Relevant Specs:

• Open Bar version: 41
• Gnome version: 47
• OS/Distribution: archlinux
• Other installed extensions if interference is expected [Optional]:

Screenshots

[neuromorph]

Hello,

This is how it looks here.

It mostly seems fine except for the search results from Characters app wherein the character Icon in description is white. After some digging, it seems that the Icon is provided by the app and Gnome does not apply any style class on it. The OpenBar FG color is applied to the entire title/description as also done by Gnome but if the Icon sent by app is not colorable, it may not work. I only saw Characters app behaving so.

In your screenshots, the text (Chinese) in results from other apps is also white but I am not facing that as you can see in the Search Entry box or the result for Files app above.

• Can you please try with Blur My Shell off, some things seem to be getting wrong color with BMS On.
• Can you please also show a screenshot of how it looks with default Gnome for the Chinese characters/icons
• What is the second last screenshot with a lot of Chinese text, some clipboard maybe? I also want to try that.

Thanks for reporting!

[xcpky]

Can you please try with Blur My Shell off, some things seem to be getting wrong color with BMS On.

It doesn't work.

Can you please also show a screenshot of how it looks with default Gnome for the Chinese characters/icons

here it is, it seems the all the characters are white

What is the second last screenshot with a lot of Chinese text, some clipboard maybe? I also want to try that.

It's Clipboard Indicator.

[neuromorph]

I can't figure out why the text is White in your case. Here's Clipboard Indicator for me:

Only some exceptions that seem to be non css-colorable symbols like the icons in Characters app result (as mentioned earlier) and the Pin icon in above Clipboard Indicator are white even though text color is black.

Also, weirdly the text typed in the Search entry of Overview is also white for you while it correctly appears black here. It is not part of the results provided by any app so it should follow the color from OpenBar.

Only thing could be if you have any special setup for multiple language input e.g. fcitx5 maybe. I do not have that. Please check if there is some settings in it that decide the color for how the input is rendered in the shell.

[neuromorph]

From the extension list you shared on the other issue, I think the 'kimpanel' one might be interfering here or may have some settings for font/color. I thought of mentioning here as it is on the lines of the "special setup for multiple language input" I mentioned earlier.