Nick Butcher

I'll consider it as a last resort, but I'd rather have basic light/dark theming available without needing a plugin. I did spend time prowling the KeePass website before making my request.

The high-contrast theme is not the same as the system theme. Your current implementation requires activating high-contrast mode, which is not a light versus dark theme. Currently, KeePass ignores the system theme setting. It's probably readable via a registry key - I just couldn't find tge specific one(s) in the 20 min I spent researching before I posted the links. Also, there exist othe Win32 apps which respect the system theme setting: Microsoft Office, Edge, and Chrome are all examples. I was...

Here are resources for dark mode: In XAML, the desired theme can be read from the Application object (can also be detected per-control): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/windows.ui.xaml.application.requestedtheme Overview of Visual Styles for C/C++: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/controls/themes-overview Guidance for checking whether the theme can be considered light or dark from Windows::UI::ViewManagement::UISettings.GetColorValue(UIColorType) by inspecting the Foreground...

Hello Dominik. Thanks for all your hard work on KeePass - it's top-notch! Christian is correct - KeePass seems to automatically switch to a dark theme only when using the high-contrast Windows themes. Windows 10 and 11 provide dark themes that can be chosen without being in high-contrast mode (and require fewer hoops for the user to jump through). The OS and MS store apps respect this setting for dark backgrounds. Notably, high-contrast mode (and its accompanying dark option) is an accessibility...