When I tried out the LCARS theme which is shipped with GTK in RedHat6 packege, and Mozilla Classic skin Mozilla looked quite bad. When I upgraded from 0.7 to 2001021506 some problems seem to be fixed but other persist. I compare the behavior of GTK widgets with the behavior of Mozilla ones. There are three reasons i) It shows how the GTK widgets use the colors so that they are usable ii) When you use the colors you should use other settings as well because the widgets may depend on them. iii)Using all possible settings from the GTK theme really integrates Mozilla into the UI of the system which should be the goal of the Classic skin (at least I think so). 1) Mozilla style scrollbars are almost all black. They don't have any rollover effect which makes the GTK style scrollbars more usable. GTK style scrollbars found in the documnts (eg. the bugzilla query page) are quite visible but have no rollover effect either. 2)Buttons appear in inverted colors.They use different rollover effect that makes the text unreadable by changing it's color to blue (don't know where the blue color is taken from) instead of changing button background to active which makes the text more readable in GTK apps. 3)In preferences, the title background bitmap is almost the same color as the title text. 4)Page source shows nothing because of bad colors. The conclusion is that I experience differences between behavior of mozilla widgets and widgets of other GTK apps which makes some of the mozilla widgets hard to use. I would expect Mozilla Classic skin to mimic the GTK as closely as possible (or any other widget set).

reporter: we need at least a picture of a normal app window. ideally you should give us a list of the properties and their values [for this theme], as well as guesses as to what we are doing [actually, you don't need to guess, you can look at lxr.mozilla.org and read what we are doing].

I didn't create the theme nor I'm familiar with GTK theming. The theme is quite dynamic: The controls change colors dramatically when you point at them with your mouse. I think it's at least partially achieved by exchanging background bitmaps. On the other hand, the buttons appear black on violet while mozilla has buttons in voilet on black. If it just lacked the background bitmap they would be black on black :)

I'll take this bug, since my latest patch on bug 67448 should fix it. But could you also attach a screenshot of what the old Mozilla (0.7) looked like?

s/fix it/improve it/

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 67448 ***

vrfy dup