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Thumbnail labels are always black

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XnView MP Linux
Version 0.87 64bits (Sep 5 2017)
Libformat version 7.10
Xubuntu 16.04 LTS

I'm using the Fusion Dark theme and until just lately it's been fine. A few days ago, all my thumbnail labels turned black. They're set to white on black, but nothing I do will make them appear in any color than black. I've lightened the thumbnail cell color to a medium grey so I can read them, but that's only a temporary workaround.

I'm getting frequentOS/app updates from Ubunutu, etc., so yes it's updated on a regular basis, but I've been at 0.87 since before this started. I'm not sure what UI toolkit XnView uses in my case (QT, GTK, etc.), but I guess it's possible a config file could've been touched (although I didn't do it explicitly).

Otherwise, everything is perfectly functional. Any idea of what's causing this?

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Re: Thumbnail labels are always black

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XnView use QT, you have not changed your settings?
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Re: Thumbnail labels are always black

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Not that I know of. Since leaving KDE for Xfce, I have very few programs using QT and I've not specifically changed anything.
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Re: Thumbnail labels are always black

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Hate to resurrect an old thread, but this is still happening. I'm currently on 0.98.4 64 bit, Xubuntu 18.04 LTS, using the Fusion Dark theme. Here's what I see:

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The foreground / background setting for the labels has no effect. As before I've set the thumbnail cell background to a medium grey to make the black labels visible (otherwise they're black on black).

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I've made no QT changes and I can't find anything in XnView where I can correct this. Is it something in the theme that's overriding?

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Re: Thumbnail labels are always black

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ok, i can reproduce if you don't use 'use color format based on file format'
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Re: Thumbnail labels are always black

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Getting closer! :)

It seems logical that if file format colors are disabled, the label default should take over. Bug?

At any rate, I don't care about format colors, so I'll just set them all to the same color and use them. But even so, when there is a third line on the label it (File: {Modified Date [Y-m-d H:M:S]}) is still getting rendered in black. Is there another setting I'm missing?

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Also, it appears I've uncovered a bug, confirmed it three times. Open Preferences, go to Browser | Thumbnail | Appearance, click the cell background color picker, swipe and copy (Ctrl+C) the color value. XnView hangs hard and I have to kill it off.

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I haven't tried the foreground picker but it doesn't hang on the label background picker. I'm running Version 0.98.4 64bits (May 31 2021) Libformat version 7.81 on Xubuntu 18.04 (patched).

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