Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 11131] Wrong color scheme for packet filter
Comment # 9
on bug 11131
from Mate Soos
(In reply to Gerald Combs from comment #8)
> The syntax line edit, which is used for the capture and display filter
> entries, is a bit of a special case. The foreground is drawn using the
> palette text color but the background is drawn using custom colors.
Exactly. I used the newest GIT about 1-2 months ago and it was the same with
the QT. Essentially unusable. Imagine an app where the developers assume you
use white text just like them! They then specifically set the background to
dark gray because it's nicer than the default black they of course use.
Hilarity ensues.
The moral of the story is that if you mess with any of the
foreground/background colours you must ensure that you also mess with the
reverse (background/foreground) colours, too. Neither the QT nor the GTK
version of Wireshark fix the foreground colour or allow me to change it. But
they both set the background to light red when the filter is not right -- i.e.
when typing any unfinished filter _expression_.
As far as I see, this is a bug that is trivial to solve: allow a user to change
the foreground colour. You already allow to change the background colour (most
of the time, not for the 'incorrect _expression_'='red' -- also a bug).
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