We have support for using system themes colors. Try to find out if there are suitable colors we could pick for syntax highlighting. I do not have the code right now, but look for QPalette and ColorRole in our source code.
JMarc 2012/8/30 Liviu Andronic <landronim...@gmail.com>: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller <sp...@lyx.org> wrote: >>> In both cases the white elements on the screen defeat the purpose of a >>> dark theme and strain the eyes. Should I file a bug report on this? >> >> I suggest you file separate reports for each of those issues, and >> maybe a META ticket which links to all reports (including #5636). >> > I may have been a bit rash in my assessment. I'm not sure what > changed---although I did reboot---, but now LyX displays almost no > signs of incomplete theming when using the Darklooks dark theme. The > Outline panel and all the dialogues taht I could check are properly > themed and easily readable. So there is really not much to report. > > Two issues that are well present: > - Some icons can be barely visible depending on the dark theme, > especially the Math icons (#5636). (With Darklooks, which uses dark > shades of grey for background, the situation is quite fine; but not > everyone is using this particular dark theme.) > - The font colors, understandably mostly forced and not theme based, > are not always appropriate for a dark background. This is a big issue > and forces the user to guess what colors might be appropriate, but > this is no easy task. For example, the syntax highlighting in the > Preamble uses dark blue which flashes out on a dark background. > (Again, Darklooks here.) Or the red 'LaTeX text' (or ERT). Or a > similar blue for the 'New page' inset. Or put a footnote in a note: > the text would be light-grey and invisible on the flashy yellow > background. > > The appropriate solution could be having an additional checkbox in > Prefs > Colors: 'Use colorscheme compatible with dark themes' or > similar. But someone with good tastes would need to take the time to > do that. I've been trying to use a dark themed CSS browser userstyle > and tweak it for low contrast [1], and this is no easy task. > > I will file an ticket for this second issue, but I'm not sure there is > still need for a META ticket in this case. Let me know. > > Regards > Liviu > > [1] http://people.ds.cam.ac.uk/ssb22/css/ > [2] http://people.ds.cam.ac.uk/ssb22/css/dark.html
