Invisible form fields w/ ncurses-5.7 on Fedora

[Grant Edwards]

I'm sure it's something I'm doing wrong in my application, but I can't
figure out what it might be.

I've got an app that's worked fine for 10 years, but a customer using
Fedora Linux reports that starting about a year ago the form fields
disappeared (other text written on the same panel is there, but the
form's data fields are invisible).  I'm actually not sure whether the
form fields are invisible, inactive, or completely absent.  The cursor
doesn't seem to navigate between fields, so it could be that the
fields are completely missing or inactive.

I reproduced the problem on Fedora 14[1] using gnome terminal 2.32.0
and ncurses 5.7.  Changing the gnome terminal's foreground/background
colors didn't help.

The same application built on Gentoo with ncurses 5.7 works fine with
gnome terminal 2.32.1 (and about a half-dozen other terminals with
various foreground/background settings).

What could I be doing wrong that would have caused form fields to go
invisible/missing on Fedora but not other distros?

[1] I initially tried to duplicate the problem using Fedora 15 but
    found the new desktop to be so unusable I gave up.  There's
    probably a way to install Fedora 15 w/ LXDE or XFCE, but I know
    the customer reporting the problem is running Gnome.

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