[kmail2] [Bug 317803] New: Kmail2 renders colors based on the user system colors rather than the default colors browsers use.

[vayu]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317803

            Bug ID: 317803
           Summary: Kmail2 renders colors based on the user system colors
                    rather than the default colors browsers use.
    Classification: Unclassified
           Product: kmail2
           Version: 4.10.1
          Platform: Ubuntu Packages
               URL: http://www.midvalleypolicecouncil.org/email/kmail-rend
                    er-problem.html
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: major
          Priority: NOR
         Component: UI
          Assignee: kdepim-bugs at kde.org
          Reporter: vayu at sklinks.com

This is similar to the recently fixed: Bug 317198 - "background-color for
message window for HTML Message need to be adjustable".

The resolution of that bug# will solve the problem for users who know how to,
but it is not complete.    When HTML is produced it has the expectation of a
white page and black text default.  If a KDE user changes her system colors,
she should not have to go and configure kmail colors to read an HTML email that
would render readably in a browser or another email client.   Giving a user the
choice of color configuration is a great feature (and why I love KDE) but the
real issue is that Kmail does not render HTML with the same colors browsers do. 

I suggest this is a bug and that unless a user changes Kmail colors that the
HTML reader renders with the colors browsers do in their default settings.

Visual example of the problem: 
http://www.midvalleypolicecouncil.org/email/kmail-render-problem.html


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to system settings/application appearance/colors/colors.
2. Change View background color to black, view text to white.
3. Go to Kmail and display an HTML email that has specified either black text
or a white background but not both in the HTML code.
(The email must have specifically defined in it's HTML code either light text
or dark background but not both)
Actual Results:  
Invisible or barely visible text depending on how close to the system colors
the text or background was defined.

Expected Results:  
Visible content at least similar in colors to the default colors that Firefox
or Chrome would render.

http://www.midvalleypolicecouncil.org/email/kmail-render-problem.html

Kubuntu 12.04, KDE SC 4.10.1

I've listed this as a major feature broken because I often have to forward
emails back to myself and read them in Thunderbird.  Needing 2 email clients
seems major.

With the new fix it's still a major problem because I imagine the situation
where my kids know how and like to change their system colors and then can't
read their emails.

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