colors in dark mode: LyX note with a vertical space does not look good

Scott Kostyshak skostysh at lyx.org
Mon May 25 16:17:07 UTC 2026


Attached are three files: the example file and screenshots of it on
2.3.0 and on current master.

I think the output looks bad also without checking the box "use system
colors" (although I didn't attach this one).

I know colors are extremely tricky to configure so that they look good
in all contexts, but I still ask just in case.

Jürgen has made some very nice improvements. For example, I wonder if
this commit can be used as inspiration to solve issues that come from
bad combinations (in this case, the LyX note color as the background and
the vertical space as the foreground):

commit d4ef3b0045da048d4834284c31fb133526dc4fba
Author: Juergen Spitzmueller <spitz at lyx.org>
Date:   Sat May 9 08:42:13 2026 +0200

    Fix use of light inset background colors in dark mode (#13312)

@Jürgen I wouldn't blame you at all if you aren't interested in looking
at this. From what I understanding, making fixes for colors is in some
sense a never-ending battle.

Scott
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: example.23.lyx
Type: application/x-lyx
Size: 1881 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.lyx.org/pipermail/lyx-devel/attachments/20260525/41207161/attachment-0003.bin>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: screenshot-2.3.0.avif
Type: image/avif
Size: 24875 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.lyx.org/pipermail/lyx-devel/attachments/20260525/41207161/attachment-0004.bin>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: screenshot-master.avif
Type: image/avif
Size: 13312 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.lyx.org/pipermail/lyx-devel/attachments/20260525/41207161/attachment-0005.bin>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 488 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.lyx.org/pipermail/lyx-devel/attachments/20260525/41207161/attachment-0001.sig>


More information about the lyx-devel mailing list