Circuitous to change textcolor for status bar

I have found a new code section which could be improvemened.

The change of the background color and the text color for a office 2013 status bar is not as easy as it should be.
The class CXTPCommandBarsOffice2013Theme contains 2 members.

- m_clrStatusBarBackground
- m_clrStatusTextColor


But due to an incomprehensible implementation is ignored m_clrStatusTextColor.

COLORREF CXTPStatusBarThemeOffice2013::GetTextColor(CXTPStatusBarPane *pPane) {     UNUSED_ALWAYS(pPane);     return RGB(255,255,255); }

The method is overridden an the return value of text color is hard coded although m_clrStatusTextColor contains already white. Is this override really necessary??
I suggest to change method to

return m_pPaintManager->m_clrStatusTextColor;