[Evolution] Message List vs Kde

["Roy Reese" <waterbearer54 gmx com>]

> Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 12:04:48 -0700
> From: Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh pacbell net>
> To: evolution-list gnome org
> Subject: [Evolution] Message List vs Kde
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> The message list doesn't display properly under KDE. I've tried a
> number of different themes, using KDE System Settings:
>
> KDE->System Settings->Application Appearance->GTK+
> Appearance->Widget Style
>
> which right now is set to Clearlooks. The problem is that text in the
> selection bar is hard to read because the bar is dark and the text is
> black. An image is attached (Evo.jpg); sorry for the blurring, which is
> an artifact of jpg compression. Using the standard theme (oxygen-gtk)
> the problem is that the selection bar is almost invisibly light. Every
> theme has its own problem; the issues seem to be the same under LXDE;
> but Evolution displays everything properly under Gnome, with the
> selection bars intense blue and the selected text white.
>
> Does anyone know what's going on, or how to fix it? If not, it looks
> like a bug. Does anyone know whether the problem is fixed or lessened
> in Fedora-21, in which KDE and Gnome will (hopefully) know each other
> better.
>
> Thanks - jon


Hi jon,

You don't say which version you are using. I had this problem a couple of years ago when I was running Mint 
MATE (probably about Evo 3.8.x). As I recall it was an issue of gtk2 not working well (which all or most of 
the Clearlooks themes are). At the moment I am running Evo 3.12 with Manjaro E18 and it works with 
beautifully with ClearlooksWise (a GTK2 theme which is part of Clearlooks-Colors). I have another comuter 
with Mageia 4 KDE, but unlike most KDE setups, it does not have the usual setting for GTK themes -- or at 
least not in the usual spot. However, Evo 3.10 worked without problems in it.

My best guess would be that you need to try a GTK3 theme or move to a more recent version of Evo.

Best,
Roy