GTK 3.24.22 introduced a new named colour, @text_view_bg, which the vte
terminal library has started to rely on, causing misrendering in themes
that do not define it (see
<https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/-/issues/284>). Other text-heavy
applications might also start to rely on that named colour in future,
particularly if they have a dark mode.

I've committed a workaround upstream in the 0.62.x branch, which will be
in Debian soon; but vte upstream asked me not to commit that change to
master, so the workaround will be going away in the next release cycle.
Please add @text_view_bg to this theme so it will not cause misrendering
in future.

The new colour is intended to be used as a background for text
views, contrasting well with @theme_text_color. For example, gnome-terminal
and other vte applications draw text in @theme_text_color on a background
of @text_view_bg.

The reference implementation is that in the light variant of GTK's default
Adwaita theme, @text_view_bg is the same white as @theme_base_color and
@content_view_bg, but in the dark variant of Adwaita, it's a darker grey
than @theme_base_color and @content_view_bg, to give white text better
contrast.

If this theme does not need to distinguish between text views and other
application content areas, defining @text_view_bg to be the same as
@theme_base_color or @content_view_bg would be appropriate.

Thanks,
    smcv

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
numix-gtk-theme, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 970980@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
James Lu <jlu@debian.org> (supplier of updated numix-gtk-theme package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2026 23:13:52 -0700
Source: numix-gtk-theme
Architecture: source
Version: 2.6.7+git20210608.ad4b345-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Desktop Theme Team <numix-gtk-theme@packages.debian.org>
Changed-By: James Lu <jlu@debian.org>
Closes: 970980 1149753
Changes:
 numix-gtk-theme (2.6.7+git20210608.ad4b345-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Team upload.
   * New upstream Git snapshot.
     - Switch to sassc from deprecated ruby-sass (Closes: #1149753)
     - Define text_view_bg color (Closes: #970980)
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