On Tuesday 13 April 2010 14:28:22 Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
I am unsure how to proceed with this issue. Perhaps throw the machines away? :)
Roger So last week I managed to resolve it on my workstation while destroying the evidence that would enable me to diagnose why it is going wrong out of the box for you. Then today I was able to reproduce it with a clean install. Steps to reproduce: * Boot openSUSE 11.2 KDE LiveCD * zypper rm kdebase4-runtime-branding-openSUSE (installs kdebase4-runtime- branding-upstream to satisfy requirements * Restart Plasma by re-logging in or by kquitapp plasma-desktop && sleep 5 && plasma-desktop Plasma starts with a black desktop theme (oxygen) with black text. The Desktop Settings' dialog's Desktop Theme popup contains a default themed preview first without any text. The reason is that kdebase4-workspace-branding-openSUSE includes /etc/kde4/share/config/plasmarc which sets the desktop theme to 'openSUSEdefault' but kdebase4-runtime-branding-openSUSE contains the files for that theme in /usr/share/kde4/apps/desktoptheme/openSUSEdefault. If the theme is not found, Plasma falls back to the blackish 'oxygen' while using the KDE default colours which have black text. Using a white-on-black colour scheme like Obsidian coast then gives you workable colours, but for normal black-on-light colour schemes, I recommend setting Aya or Air as a desktop theme instead of Oxygen. As a fix for my reproduction of the problem I am going to make Plasma fall back to Air, and make kdebase4-workspace-branding-openSUSE require kdebase4- runtime-branding-openSUSE. What I am not sure about is how your users with migrated homes from KDE 3 end up in this situation. Does any of the info above ring a bell with you? Will -- Will Stephenson, openSUSE Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org