SUMMARY I am light sensitive. White, flashy colors on my screen hurt my eyes. Like many others, especially at night. Many modern webpages already support a dark mode - yeah! :D Could you implement a setting, that let us choose the background color from white into something we prefer, like black? I fail to see the benefit of a white flashy loading screen, while there are surely people who enjoy it.. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Open a new tab at night 2. Blind your eyes 3. Ask yourself why this is standard since always on every browser. OBSERVED RESULT White background before the new tab page, or any homepage is open EXPECTED RESULT Black. As my soul SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Windows: macOS: Linux/KDE Plasma: current (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: current KDE Frameworks Version: current Qt Version: current ADDITIONAL INFORMATION None
It _might_ be a limitation of QtWebEngine. I am currently using Otter Browser, which supports both QtWebKit, as well as QtWebEngine. When using the former, a configurable background color is respected, while on the latter, it always flashes full white first.
Thanks a lot. This one is in the hands of Qt only, right?
Possibly. Further investigation is needed before that can be decided.
As of plasma 5.19.5 with qt 5.15.0 and frameworks 5.73, there is a dar mode style for kde that at least sets the bars and tabs as expected, the pages keeps the same looking though. In a hint I found on the net, launching falkon with QTWEBENGINE_CHROMIUM_FLAGS=--force-dark-mode will produce some webpages, like duckduckgo use the dark mode, but not all webs will obey it. It would be good to find a way to make it for all sites. Thanks!