FS#53611 - [newsbeuter] broken UI / wrong colors

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Matthias Lisin (matthias.lisin) - Saturday, 08 April 2017, 08:39 GMT
Last edited by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Wednesday, 03 May 2017, 15:42 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Testing
Status Closed
Assigned To Jaroslav Lichtblau (Dragonlord)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 3
Private No

Details

Description:
The ncurses UI in newsbeuter seems to be broken.
Inactive/unselected entries seem to have black text color _on black background_.

Asciinema showing the issue:
https://asciinema.org/a/97n7ws10a448ddwx23k55yksv

As you can see only the entries currently selected are visible.

Additional info:
* community-testing/newsbeuter 2.9-6


Steps to reproduce:
1. Add feed url to ~/.newsbeuter/url

echo 'https://www.archlinux.org/feeds/news/' > ~/.newsbeuter/url

2. Start newsbeuter
3. Select 'Arch Linux: Recent news updates' (press Enter)
4. Use Up/Down to nagivate through feed
This task depends upon

Closed by  Doug Newgard (Scimmia)
Wednesday, 03 May 2017, 15:42 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  ncurses 6.0+20170429-1
Comment by Daniel M. Capella (polyzen) - Saturday, 08 April 2017, 17:46 GMT
https://github.com/akrennmair/newsbeuter/issues/528
Comment by Matthias Lisin (matthias.lisin) - Wednesday, 26 April 2017, 06:37 GMT
This issue hit the stable repos today.
Those affected should check the Github Issue referenced by polyzen for (hopefully temporary) workarounds.
Comment by Matthias Lisin (matthias.lisin) - Sunday, 30 April 2017, 10:15 GMT
According to this: https://github.com/akrennmair/newsbeuter/issues/528#issuecomment-298219963

The Issue is fixed with this release: ncurses-6.0-20170429
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2017-04/msg00037.html

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