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Status: WontFix
Owner: ----
Closed: Dec 2017
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Pri: 3
Type: Bug



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[Devtools] Dark theme interferes with extension UI if background color unchanged

Project Member Reported by aboxhall@chromium.org, Jan 17 2017

Issue description

For example, when using https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/accessibility-developer-t/fpkknkljclfencbdbgkenhalefipecmb?hl=en, this user reported not being able to read the text:
https://twitter.com/namboozle/status/820064095349198848

As a workaround, obviously I can fix that extension, but other extension authors may be seeing this issue.
 
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Comment 1 by caseq@chromium.org, Jan 17 2017

Components: -Platform>DevTools Platform>DevTools>UX
Owner: pfeldman@chromium.org
Status: Assigned (was: Untriaged)
Owner: aboxhall@chromium.org
The issue here is that extension has a transparent background. Extension vendors should use chrome.devtools.panels.themeName if they want to support dark theme. Or if they don't they should set the background to non-transparent.
Owner: ----
Status: Available (was: Assigned)
This extension doesn't explicitly set the background to transparent, though - transparent is the default.

Obviously extension authors can work around this issue once they know they need to, but that doesn't make it not an issue. The UI should be usable when the default HTML style is used.

Perhaps you could inject a default stylesheet into extension iframes which sets something usable as the default, which developers may override?
Cc: aboxhall@chromium.org
 Issue 790002  has been merged into this issue.
Status: WontFix (was: Available)
WontFix due to lack of priority / resources

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