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Kleopatra: Tooltips are hard to read on Windows 10/11 with dark color scheme
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Description

If one enables the dark color scheme on Windows 10 then the tooltips are hard to read because the text color used for the tooltips is way too dark.

This seems to be a bug in Qt's Windows Vista style which tries to use the same colors for tooltips as Windows, but it fails to get the correct color if the dark color scheme is enabled. I'm not sure if Qt is to blame or the Windows API which returns the wrong color, but it doesn't really matter. The problem doesn't occur if one forces the fusion style.

The problem probably doesn't occur with Qt's new Windows 11 style (introduced with Qt 6.something) because it seems to use different code for the (tooltip) colors.

This has also been reported at https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481772

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Version
gpg4win-4.3.2-beta89

Revisions and Commits

rW Gpg4win
rW47de974681c5 Make tooltips readable also with dark color scheme

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Event Timeline

• ikloecker created this task.Thu, Nov 21, 9:49 AM
• ikloecker claimed this task.Thu, Nov 21, 10:16 AM
• ikloecker mentioned this in T7415: Kleopatra: Use Breeze style on Windows.
• ikloecker added a commit: rW47de974681c5: Make tooltips readable also with dark color scheme.Thu, Nov 21, 10:35 AM
• ikloecker changed the task status from Open to Testing.Thu, Nov 21, 10:39 AM
• ikloecker triaged this task as Normal priority.
• ikloecker added a project: vsd33.

Fixed (for Gpg4win 4.4 / VSD 3.3) by patching Qt's Windows Vista style.

The tooltips now look like this with dark color scheme on Windows 10:

And they look like this with the (normal) light color scheme on Windows 10:

• ikloecker moved this task from Backlog to WiP on the vsd33 board.Thu, Nov 21, 10:40 AM