Coloring of unfocussed windows makes text unreadable

[DarkTrick]

XUbuntu 21.04 fresh install

Problem:

Coloring for unfocused selected items is "grey on blue" and therefore unreadable

Reproduce:

• open Thunar
• select a file
• open 2nd Thunar
• look at the first Thunar (without focussing it) and try to read the selected text
• ACTUAL: Grey font on blue background (see example image above)
• EXPECTED: Black font on grey background (see below)

Suggested solution

There are many possible solutions to this.
I suggest:
Unfocussed selected items should have

• usual font color
• grey background

edit: Example with current font-color:

Reason:
It solves two issues at once:

1. The issue of unreadability described here
2. The issue, that it's often not clear which element has focus (I guess this was tackled by the change in font color to grey)

Notes

This is a copy of the report on launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shimmer-themes/+bug/1935019

[ochosi]

I would swap out the grey for a very light grey on selected backgrounds in unfocused windows.

PRs welcome!

[ochosi]

"pull requests welcome" (as in: I'm not sure when I'll get to this)

[DarkTrick]

I figured out the place to change it must be somewhere around here:

Greybird/light/gtk-3.0/_common.scss

// catch all extend :)

%selected_items {
  background-color: $selected_bg_color;

  ...
}

However, for whatever reason the &:disabled selector does not seem to work here. So the following has no effect:

// catch all extend :)

%selected_items {
  background-color: $selected_bg_color;

  &:disabled {
    background-color: #FF0000; /*testcolor*/
  }

  ...
}

If someone knows the trick, please let me know....

[DarkTrick]

Here's my MR: #303