I installed ardour2beta5.1 yesterday,and all seems to be working ok.
The problem is that the menu text is unreadable.
It is white on “nearly white” so it doesn’t stand out.
I’m running slackware and that doesn’t have a complete gnome
installed, only GTK. So there is no tool for setting the colors
of text/background of the GTK menus.
Can someone tell me how to change the colors to my needs
in this situation ?
Ed – I have similar display issues. I haven’t found a solution yet, but it seems that there are some dependencies out of whack in certain distros.
I’m running FC4 with PlanetCCRMA, and Ardour2 on my machine does not look like the “standard” screen shots some users have shown me.
I was able to make a couple things better (button appearance) by manually installing ClearLooks. It still didn’t fix my “contrast” issues (like yours).
In my case, the menus are OK, but the dialogs often have black text on black fields, and my Editor window track names are unreadable until I physically select the text in the box.
Also, you mention white menu backgrounds – I have this too, and was told (and shown) that there really isn’t any “white” in the default color scheme. The screen shot I saw showed a really nice grey where my screen shows stark white…
and by “clearlooks” we mean the actual clearlooks, not the version several distros have butchered. just today, someone on #ardour solved this issue by installing the “real” clearlooks - all his problems went away.