Them too dark with Debian/XFCE4

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AxelD

Hello,

with Debian sid and XFCE4 the color theme is too dark in FreeSync version 10.19.

Sometimes I cannot read the GUI entries at all, please see the attached screenshots.

Is there any way to change the theme?

Sincerely yours
Axel Dürrbaum
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Zenju

Is this an issue only with FreeFileSync or with wxWidgets-based applications in general (e.g. FileZilla, Audacity)? In general FFS doesn't explicitly set colors, but gets them from wxWidgets, which (hopefully) requests them from GTK2.
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Zenju

Themes in Debian XFCE4 can be changed via Applications->Settings->Appearance.

The FFS colors are basically correctly set according to the theme. There is just one major problem with wxSYS_COLOUR_GRAYTEXT which renders the same black as the background. This is a bug/oversight of the dark theme.
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Zenju

I've noticed a different issue, that FFS can in fact fix: Black graphics with alpha channel aren't visible on a black background. I've added a semi-transparent white outline for those images (e.g. black arrows):
https://www.mediafire.com/file/x98rj8g6pweswg0/FreeFileSync_10.23_beta_Linux.tar.gz