Hopefully this will help others in the same boat. Here's the situation: If you (like me) are a fan of the stock Plasma 'Breeze Dark' theme, you may notice that in your System Settings > GNOME Application Style settings dialogue, there is an option to select 'Breeze Dark' as the default GTK+ application style. There's only one problem - In many popular websites (Facebook, G+, others) the result is that text input boxes will likely lead to unreadable text. Meaning you'll have an extremely light text on a white background leading to unreadable text. A quick web search using your favorite search engine will reveal this being a problem in KDE in various incarnations going all the way back to 2010-era KDE 4. And it still continues to this day. An option that is a quick and easy fix seems to be available via this thread from Ubuntu Forums that dates all the way back to 2012! Here's the result post-fix:
It's not elegant, it's not beautiful, but it's a down-and-dirty hack to force any input text to black. I will continue to search for a better solution - and if someone has one please post here as it would be greatly appreciated! - but in the end the ideal solution would be for Breeze to properly handle GTK+ applications. Again, this issue has been going on for virtually eternity, and it'd be nice if a distro that ships Firefox and ships a dark Firefox GTK+ Theme out of the box to properly handle this. I've heard that upcoming versions of Firefox on Linux will support client-side decorations, and maybe this will help somehow?. But until then, and if anyone ever really gives a sh*t about how GTK+ apps look and play in Plasma, I won't hold my breath.
It's not elegant, it's not beautiful, but it's a down-and-dirty hack to force any input text to black. I will continue to search for a better solution - and if someone has one please post here as it would be greatly appreciated! - but in the end the ideal solution would be for Breeze to properly handle GTK+ applications. Again, this issue has been going on for virtually eternity, and it'd be nice if a distro that ships Firefox and ships a dark Firefox GTK+ Theme out of the box to properly handle this. I've heard that upcoming versions of Firefox on Linux will support client-side decorations, and maybe this will help somehow?. But until then, and if anyone ever really gives a sh*t about how GTK+ apps look and play in Plasma, I won't hold my breath.
Just to remind users and devs that Ubuntu and its flavors have a long way to go to be as usr friendly as they should be.
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