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#127 Dark mode

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2023-08-04
2023-06-18
Ben Longman
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Can you add a dark mode? Mcomix has become the odd man out my desktop top, and that means navigation buttons are either lacking contrast in mcomix, or everything else that uses the system ones.

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  • FeRD

    FeRD - 2023-06-19

    What OS are you on?

    MComix looks fine in dark mode, on my Fedora 38 system. It's a legacy Gtk3 app, which means it doesn't respect the dark-mode settings in Gnome Control Center... but if you install the GNOME Tweaks utility, it has a setting in Appearance > Themes > Legacy Applications that will let you set a dark-mode theme for Gtk3 apps like MComix. (I'm using "Adwaita-dark".)

     
  • Ben Longman

    Ben Longman - 2023-06-19

    Nobara 37 and KDE. Breeze Dark. Hadn't thought of going with gnome tweaks, and what worked was HighContrastInverse. Adwaita-dark did not give me the desired result.

     
    • FeRD

      FeRD - 2023-06-20

      Yeah, I recently concluded (after discovering that a switch from Wayland to Xorg caused VLC to lose its dark-mode styling — why would that matter!?) that I will never understand how style preferences work in GNOME.

       
  • FeRD

    FeRD - 2023-08-04

    I think this can be closed, right @bmfrosty? MComix is dark-mode compatible, as I showed above, and I'm personally of the opinion that applications are better off not trying to implement their own dark-mode styling, if they can avoid it and just go with the system settings. Doing it in the application is more maintenance work, and usually means that it'll make a mess of things when the system dark mode is also activated.

     
  • Ben Longman

    Ben Longman - 2023-08-04

    Sure can be closed.

     
  • Oddegamra

    Oddegamra - 2023-08-04
    • status: open --> closed
     

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