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Goto Tools>>Options>>Fonts & Colors>>Versioning>>Versioning System:Mercurial Locally Modified or Locally New does not work for these Highlighting colors: Cyan Light Gray Orange Pink White Yellow Many Custom Colors will not work, for example on Locally New: This color won't work: [172,255,181] This color won't work: [141,216,207] This color will work: [154,75,217] Product Version: NetBeans IDE Dev (Build nbms-and-javadoc-1921-on-20140717) Java: 1.8.0_11; Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 25.11-b03 Runtime: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 1.8.0_11-b12 System: Windows 7 version 6.1 running on amd64; Cp1252; en_US (nb)
That makes sense that they not work. NetBeans by default render fonts with regard to their background. In case the font color does not have enough contrast (on the active background) the default color is used. For example it indeed makes sense that White does not work, can you imagine how white font looks on a white background? You can disable the NetBeans rendering with -J-Dnb.useSwingHtmlRendering=true. But since you're about a tenth reporter and people are evidently confused by this i think we could at least add a warning to the options panel: Not every selected color will apply depending on an eventual background color. Maybe even better would be to show an example, however it is not always possible because backgrounds may vary from component to component throughout NetBeans.
fix: http://hg.netbeans.org/core-main/rev/f2ced7d5e73e
Integrated into 'main-silver', will be available in build *201407290001* on http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/nightly/ (upload may still be in progress) Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main-silver/rev/f2ced7d5e73e User: Ondrej Vrabec <ovrabec@netbeans.org> Log: #245772 - Some Versioning Highlighting Colors do not work on source file names. info label added to the options panel.