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Xen · 10-12-2014, 03:36 PM

Thankfully that is incorrect, and would be unacceptable were it correct.

The issue is that Calibre does not properly handle the case where a user is using a high-contrast theme. This is pretty standard stuff.

I did finally manage to find the preferences settings. The problem with THAT is that the widget that Calibre uses to "drop down" anything that doesn't fit on the tool bar is invisible in a high contrast theme. It is very thin and all the way to the right so unless you position your cursor JUST RIGHT (and in order to do that it helps if you magically already know where the invisible widget is) you can't get to preferences or any other tool that doesn't fit within the width of the window.

I had to maximize the window to find preferences.

Preferences allows me to set either "calibre style" or "windows standard style" (or something like that). Setting that to "windows standard" or whatever it is - not the Calibre version at least - gets rid of the eye-stabbing alternating white bars in the library list.

But regardless of which style you have selected, that widget to expand the tool bar is still invisible. Possibly there are other invisible widgets as well.

Also the text colors for Authors, Series, IDS, and Tags in that little info window in the lower left of the calibre window is using a default bright royal blue (normal display) and bright red (for mouseover highlight) to display text. The blue color is unreadable on a dark background (mine is dark charcoal) and the red is pretty eye searing. Also for some bizarre reason, part of the last letter in the Series field, however long it is, is displayed in that bright red color.

I would attach a picture - I did go to all the trouble to get one - but apparently this forum (which ALSO hasn't properly coded for high-contrast visually impaired folks because this editor has a bunch of invisible-in-high-contrast-mode widgets as well) won't insert a picture, it will only display a picture with an URL.

So hopefully the developer will read this and fix his widgets so they're not invisible in high contrast mode, then fix the colors being used to display those links so they, too, are not illegible or painful to the user who must use a hight contrast theme.

Or give us the option to change those colors in the appearance tab. That would probably be easiest for the user, and probably the coder as well. I'm not sure where those default colors are coming from, but I can't find a Windows setting that will change them - so please, please, PLEASE let those of us who need to use high-contrast settings fix it so we can actually see that text.

10-12-2014, 03:36 PM	#3
Xen Connoisseur Posts: 87 Karma: 180000 Join Date: Aug 2013 Device: Kindle	Thankfully that is incorrect, and would be unacceptable were it correct. The issue is that Calibre does not properly handle the case where a user is using a high-contrast theme. This is pretty standard stuff. I did finally manage to find the preferences settings. The problem with THAT is that the widget that Calibre uses to "drop down" anything that doesn't fit on the tool bar is invisible in a high contrast theme. It is very thin and all the way to the right so unless you position your cursor JUST RIGHT (and in order to do that it helps if you magically already know where the invisible widget is) you can't get to preferences or any other tool that doesn't fit within the width of the window. I had to maximize the window to find preferences. Preferences allows me to set either "calibre style" or "windows standard style" (or something like that). Setting that to "windows standard" or whatever it is - not the Calibre version at least - gets rid of the eye-stabbing alternating white bars in the library list. But regardless of which style you have selected, that widget to expand the tool bar is still invisible. Possibly there are other invisible widgets as well. Also the text colors for Authors, Series, IDS, and Tags in that little info window in the lower left of the calibre window is using a default bright royal blue (normal display) and bright red (for mouseover highlight) to display text. The blue color is unreadable on a dark background (mine is dark charcoal) and the red is pretty eye searing. Also for some bizarre reason, part of the last letter in the Series field, however long it is, is displayed in that bright red color. I would attach a picture - I did go to all the trouble to get one - but apparently this forum (which ALSO hasn't properly coded for high-contrast visually impaired folks because this editor has a bunch of invisible-in-high-contrast-mode widgets as well) won't insert a picture, it will only display a picture with an URL. So hopefully the developer will read this and fix his widgets so they're not invisible in high contrast mode, then fix the colors being used to display those links so they, too, are not illegible or painful to the user who must use a hight contrast theme. Or give us the option to change those colors in the appearance tab. That would probably be easiest for the user, and probably the coder as well. I'm not sure where those default colors are coming from, but I can't find a Windows setting that will change them - so please, please, PLEASE let those of us who need to use high-contrast settings fix it so we can actually see that text.