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Created attachment 112755 [details] screenshot illustrating the bug I was trying out the 201110250600 nightly build and discovered an issue which I cannot reproduce in NetBeans IDE 7.0 or earlier. Like many developers, my desktop color scheme is set to dark gray. The error message in the NetBeans suite project customizer's Libraries category has changed from its original foreground color (black, on my machine) to a brownish-yellow which is nearly unreadable on my system (see attached). To reproduce (on MS Windows XP): 1. Open the Control Panel and edit the Display Properties to set the color of 3D Objects to Red=160, Green=160, Blue=164. Click OK and wait for the change to take effect. 2. Start NetBeans IDE and open a suite project. 3. Right click on the suite in the Projects tab and choose Properties from the context menu. 4. Select the Libraries category on the left of the customizer window 5. Expand a cluster (such as apisupport) and then uncheck a module (such as CRUD Application Platform Sample) which is a dependency for another module. You should observe that the error message shown along the bottom of the project customizer is effectively unreadable. Obviously, using the default color scheme is one workaround but using MS Windows is painful enough without the added torture of the default color scheme searing my retinas. The only other workaround is to select the error message's text so that the message is is shown in inverse colors and is readable.
I guess warningColor cannot be hardcoded to an RGB value, it should be derived with the L&F-specific component background color in mind.
(In reply to comment #1) > I guess warningColor cannot be hardcoded to an RGB value, it should be derived > with the L&F-specific component background color in mind. it's not easy to derive warning-like color and ensure it is contrasting with window background. perhaps i should just use the default foreground color (black). the icon would be the visual cue then.
I.e. revert bug #183624, relying on bug #200289?
I switched the color back to dark grey, the warning icon should be showing now. core-main d31b14bcd044
Integrated into 'main-golden', will be available in build *201204050400* on http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/nightly/ (upload may still be in progress) Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main-golden/rev/d31b14bcd044 User: S. Aubrecht <saubrecht@netbeans.org> Log: #204598 - there's no cross-platform warning-like color