Hello,
using a dark qt5ct theme with a light desktop theme doesn't give me dark
colored eric6. However, if I switch the desktop theme to a dark theme
(e.g. Breeze Dark) every Qt widget in eric uses this dark colors. I did
not find a reason, why qt5ct does not work as expected. Testing it with
native Qt application (Qt Designer) showed the same behavior like eric6.
Therefore I assume, it is Qt ignoring qt5ct.
An alternative would be to create a QSS style file. The eric archive
includes an example called 'Chinese_Dark.qss' located in the 'styles'
folder.
Regards,
Detlev
Am 13.10.21 um 09:24 schrieb Martin:
Hi !
Thank you for the answer.
Unfortunately I don't understand why it doesn't work.
I have installed Eric using the official method (virtualenv in
~/eric_env/)
I also installed qt5ct. It was complaining QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME
wasn't set to 'q5ct'. So I have set the env variable (from
/etc/environment then restart X session) and the tool doesn't complain
anymore.
After that, in qt5ct, I choose a dark theme and the preview looks OK.
If I open KeepassXC which also use QT5, I can see the changes I make in
qt5ct tool is well reflected in KeepassXC.
But not in Eric.
I'm running Ubuntu 20.04.
On Tue, 12 Oct 2021 17:34:05 +0200
Detlev Offenbach <det...@die-offenbachs.de> wrote:
Hello,
there is no single place to configure a dark theme. If the desktop
environment already is dark, all the Qt widgets in eric should be
dark as well (at least it was over here on Kubuntu when I switched to
a dark theme). In order to get the syntax highlighter to show a dark
theme, just import one of the themes (eric6_Dark_1 or eric6_Dark_2).
What is left thereafter are various other color settings. Just browse
through the configuration dialog.
Regards,
Detlev
Am 12.10.21 um 15:03 schrieb Martin:
Hi,
Trying Eric for the first time and seems to match my needs.
I'm looking for a way to turn Eric dark, everywhere it's possible.
After searching in this mailing list archives, I found the following
post:
https://www.mail-archive.com/eric@riverbankcomputing.com/msg03971.html
Things I have tried inspired by the post above:
- My system theme is already a dark one
- Preferences -> Interface -> Interface -> Style Sheet and choose a
dark named style sheet. Changes not much but minor parts of the
UI
- Preferences -> Editor -> Highlighers -> Styles and import a style
does the job at least for the editor part of the UI
So my question: is there a way to turn the whole UI in "dark mode" ?
because the default appearance is a bit aggressive for me eyes.
PS: I didn't find any user manual for Eric on the official Website,
I wonder if there is one.
Regards,
--
Detlev Offenbach
det...@die-offenbachs.de
