Re: LyX 2.4 Beta 2 — How to use dark theme on windows10 ?

[Daniel]

On 2023-02-02 07:51, Daniel wrote:
> On 2023-02-01 21:18, didiergabory at free.fr wrote:
>> Thank you for your feedback. Regarding the preferences file... It 
>> occurred to me that the color configuration file that I use with 2.3.7 
>> does not give satisfaction with 2.4... The names of the dynamic colors 
>> may have changed? The background, for example, does not appear in 
>> black… That's why I was asking if someone would agree to share their 
>> "dark color preferences" file from 2.4... Because it's not an easy 
>> exercise.
> 
> The dark mode colors that are currently part of LyX 2.4 are hard coded. 
> You can see them here:
> 
> https://www.lyx.org/trac/browser/lyxgit/src/Color.cpp
> 
> There you will find a comment
> 
> //  ColorCode, gui, latex, x11hexname, x11darkhexname, lyx
> 
> So, for example,
> 
> { Color_footlabel, N_("footnote label"), "footlabel", "#00aaff", blue, 
> "footlabel" }
> 
> means that the color "footlabel" will be set to "blue" in dark mode. So, 
> without dark mode support, this corresponds to the following line in the 
> Preferences file:
> 
> \set_color "footlabel" "blue" "blue"
> 
> (Setting the light mode color to the same color as the dark mode color.)
> 
> In this way you should be able use the same colors in the work area (!) 
> that LyX uses where it supports dark mode.
> 
> Granted, it is a bit cumbersome to transfer all the colors.
> 
> It might be a good idea to add a button to the color dialog for manually 
> switching to dark mode/light mode colors.
> 
> Hope that helps!
> 
> Daniel

I have filed an bug at https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/12652. If none of 
the developers complains, I might even create a patch at some point.

Daniel