Audacity Forum

System-info first:
Kernel: 4.10.0-38-generic x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 5.4.0) Desktop: MATE 1.18.0 (Gtk 3.18.9-1ubuntu3.3) Distro: Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia
Audacity 2.2.2 from PPA

This morning I tried Audacity 2.2.2 but had to remove it again.
It really has nice GUI themes now. But:
I use a dark overall theme (Mint-Y-Dark or Vertex Dark) which has white font on dark background.
The trouble with Audacity's setting stuff is, that the white font is set on a white background ... thus unreadable. What a pity.
My suggestion to the programmers: take font and background from the user's theme and everything should be fine.
Hopefully this can be fixed ... else I'll have to stay on old versions where this problem doesn't occur.

Yours
Minty18

Does the problem occur with all of Audacity's them options? http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/themes.html

Also, have you tried toggling the option: "Blend system and Audacity theme"? http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/inte ... ences.html

(Note that to fully refresh changed theme settings requires restarting Audacity)

Changing the Theme doesn't seem to have an effect in that place, nor does the blending option.
I have restarted audacity after each change.
May I attach screenshots here?
This problem did not occur in the previous versions of audacity (I'm running 2.1.2 at the moment)

OK, I see the problem - Theme background colour is not currently defined for the scrollers in Preferences. I suspect this is an oversight and looks to be an easy fix.

I've now committed a fix, which will be in the next release.

Thank you. I'm looking forward to he next release.