Bug 480439

Summary: Readability of menu, statusbar and active tabs in dark themes
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: guggese <guggese>
Component: Bundle-MacOSAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: caulier.gilles, metzpinguin
Priority: NOR    
Version: 8.2.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Homebrew (macOS)   
OS: macOS   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In: 8.3.0
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: Readability Main Menu, Status and active Tabs (OSX via Homebrew)
Switched appearance from Breeze Dark to Breeze
reswitched to Breeze Dark and voilà ...

Description guggese@freenet.de 2024-01-28 15:08:11 UTC 
Created attachment 165309 [details]
Readability Main Menu, Status and active Tabs (OSX via Homebrew)

SUMMARY
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STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1.  Select any of the Dark Mode Designs via Settings -> Design
2.  Restart the application for changes of icons


OBSERVED RESULT
menu, status and active tabs stay with lightgrey text and white icons on grey background which results in bad readibility

EXPECTED RESULT
Good contrast of text and icons within main menu and statusbar and on (active) highlighted backgrounds 

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 
macOS:  14.3
Linux/KDE Plasma: 
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 
KDE Frameworks Version: 
Qt Version: 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 Maik Qualmann 2024-01-28 15:11:30 UTC 
Switch to the Breeze Widget Style in the digiKam settings under Miscellaneous->Appearance.
In digiKam-8.3.0 this is set by default.

Maik
Comment 2 guggese@freenet.de 2024-01-28 15:11:42 UTC 
Comment on attachment 165309 [details]
Readability Main Menu, Status and active Tabs (OSX via Homebrew)

As the energy saving dark designs are very common on laptops, this fix would provide a much better user experience.
Comment 3 caulier.gilles 2024-01-28 15:29:35 UTC 
You have installed digiKam from homeBrew? You did you process exactly ?

Gilles Caulier
Comment 4 caulier.gilles 2024-01-28 15:30:42 UTC 
Which MacOS version did you use ? Intel or Silicon computer ?

Gilles Caulier
Comment 5 guggese@freenet.de 2024-01-28 15:30:56 UTC 
Created attachment 165310 [details]
Switched appearance from Breeze Dark to Breeze
Comment 6 guggese@freenet.de 2024-01-28 15:32:15 UTC 
(In reply to caulier.gilles from comment #4)
> Which MacOS version did you use ? Intel or Silicon computer ?
> 
> Gilles Caulier

M1 silicon ...
Comment 7 caulier.gilles 2024-01-28 15:36:13 UTC 
From my Macbook Pro M1: https://i.imgur.com/tO5hHdG.png

It's works perfectly...

Gilles Caulier
Comment 8 guggese@freenet.de 2024-01-28 15:43:05 UTC 
Created attachment 165311 [details]
reswitched to Breeze Dark and voilà ...

Reswitching did the trick, strange but nice, at least ;)
Thanks four your support.
Comment 9 Maik Qualmann 2024-01-28 15:43:25 UTC 
You also need to choose a dark color theme in digiKam.

Maik
Comment 10 guggese@freenet.de 2024-01-28 15:57:08 UTC 
After resetting the appearance from 'Breeze Dark' to 'Breeze' (restart) and then switching back to 'Breeze Dark' the application seems to have overwritten the setting to the correct values. Now everything's looks as expected (3rd screenshot).  Thanks to Gilles Caulier for proving the screenshot.
Comment 11 guggese@freenet.de 2024-01-28 16:00:31 UTC 
(In reply to Maik Qualmann from comment #9)
> You also need to choose a dark color theme in digiKam.
> 
> Maik

I've done so. I played around with the different themes to choose my favorite. Maybe I created the wrong setting this way.