It's probably an upstream bug since it doesn't play nice with gnome- accessibility-themes' High Contrast theme either. But at least we can apply the MP to ubuntu-themes to make it work.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-system-log in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1045602 Title: date and time in gnome-system-log is white text on white background Status in “gnome-system-log” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “ubuntu-themes” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: The datetimes in syslog, kernlog, and auth.log (ie that appear to the left of the log text) are normally invisible. They are there - selecting them makes them appear as white text on orange background - but the problem is that they are normally being drawn as white text on white background. The same problem doesn't exhibit in the Xorg.0.log, possibly because that isn't translated to date and time. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: gnome-system-log 3.5.90-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-13.14-generic 3.5.3 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-13-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.5.1-0ubuntu4 Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Sep 4 11:07:06 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120606.2) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_AU:en TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_AU.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gnome-system-log UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system-log/+bug/1045602/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
