Foreground text color when panel is black

[Matthew Brush]

On 14-04-25 12:57 PM, Marc MAURICE wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I don't know if it can be considered as a bug or not.
>
> I changed my panel background color to be black because I like it that way,
> but doing so the text of some applets is darkgrey on black.. almost
> unreadable.
>
> For now I patched and recompiled the datetime plugin with some
> gtk_widget_modify_fg functions, to set white color on the text.
>
> Is there a way in gtk to change the default foreground color of the
> whole panel ?
>

Maybe using custom gtkrc. I don't much about it specifically, but you 
may find some inspiration in existing themes, like:
https://github.com/shimmerproject/Greybird/blob/master/gtk-2.0/apps/xfce-panel.rc

Cheers,
Matthew Brush