Bug 407859

Summary: Add option to follow system colour theme
Product: [Applications] kate Reporter: Kishore Gopalakrishnan <kishore96>
Component: generalAssignee: KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: a.samirh78, kde, loh.tar, nate
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 19.04.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Kishore Gopalakrishnan 2019-05-23 08:32:20 UTC 
Kate allows one to choose a custom colour theme for the application alone through 'Settings > Colour Theme'. Currently it is missing a 'Default' option that tells Kate to follow the system colour scheme. This means that once one chooses a custom colour theme for the first time, one loses the ability to have Kate automatically match the system colour theme.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux distro: Arch Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.15.90
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.58.0
Qt Version: 5.13.0
Comment 1 Lothar 2019-05-23 12:41:49 UTC 
There is a similar option as "View->Schema" which was only once for me handy to test something with a patch. But these "Settings->Color Theme" looks to me completely pointless. For my taste should that be removed.
Comment 2 Christoph Feck 2019-05-23 14:11:21 UTC 
The idea was to be able to set the colors of the document independent from the colors of the UI.
Comment 3 Kishore Gopalakrishnan 2019-05-23 14:27:21 UTC 
(In reply to Christoph Feck from comment #2)
> The idea was to be able to set the colors of the document independent from
> the colors of the UI.
The colours of the text area can be set separately through the colour schemas in 'Settings > Configure Kate > Fonts and Colours'. This option just sets the colour theme of the toolbar, sidebar etc.
Comment 4 Nate Graham 2019-05-24 20:44:20 UTC 
(In reply to Kishore Gopalakrishnan from comment #0)
> This means that
> once one chooses a custom colour theme for the first time, one loses the
> ability to have Kate automatically match the system colour theme.
Yep, can confirm.

I feel like this menu should be in frameworks and accessible from all apps rather than being a Kate-specific feature, and yeah, it should have a "Default" option to allow Kate to once again follow the system theme if you try out a different color scheme in Kate and decide you and to go back to the default again.
Comment 5 Ahmad Samir 2019-06-09 16:48:38 UTC 
https://phabricator.kde.org/D21699
Comment 6 Nate Graham 2019-06-10 13:49:12 UTC 
Thank you very much! I've left comments there. :)