Graphical Issue - white-on-white text

[Not-Super-Nova]

I've been having an issue where certain parts of Archer (the cli window, the menu bar) have been appearing with white-on-white text, giving me no option but to hover over / select things to even read them. I've come up with a patch to explicitly specify the foreground colour in a few helper functions in the Archer tcl scripts, but before trying to fix the rest of it I would like to know:

1. if anyone is having the same issue as me (indicating it's not an issue with my setup
2. if there are any design guidelines I should be following, or if it just needs fixing.

Information about my setup: X -version:

X.Org X Server 1.21.1.2
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Current Operating System: Linux nova-vivobook 5.16.0-1-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Dec 20 15:49:00 UTC 2021 x86_64
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Current version of pixman: 0.40.0
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BRL-CAD Release 7.32.4 (from Arch Linux AUR) Kernel 5.16.0-1-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Dec 20 15:49:00 UTC 2021 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[luzpaz]

screenshot ?

[starseeker]

I've not encountered a white-on-white text problem, as far as I can recollect. Are you using the system Tcl/Tk, or building with the bundled version? If the former, do other Tcl/Tk applications on the system have similar issues?

I don't think it would be unreasonable to explicitly set the Archer foreground color to make sure we get a sane result even if system options are odd. I don't think we expose the terminal font colors anywhere for use customization in the Tcl/Tk interfaces, although I'm not 100% sure since that's not something I've ever tried to change myself.