Bug 416146 - Kate text editor area doesn't properly respect KDE system color schemes
Summary: Kate text editor area doesn't properly respect KDE system color schemes
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 315141
Alias: None
Product: kate
Classification: Applications
Component: general (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 19.12.1
Platform: Kubuntu Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: KWrite Developers
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Reported: 2020-01-12 02:04 UTC by leftcrane
Modified: 2020-05-14 17:16 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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dark on dark (13.05 KB, image/png)
2020-01-12 02:04 UTC, leftcrane
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light on light (14.92 KB, image/png)
2020-01-12 02:06 UTC, leftcrane
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Description leftcrane 2020-01-12 02:04:58 UTC
Created attachment 125047 [details]
dark on dark

SUMMARY


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Set the system theme to "Breeze Dark"
2. Open Kate with "Normal" color schema - this was the default.
   RESULT: Dark text on dark background (shot1.png)

Alternately:
3. Set the system theme to "Breeze Light"
4. Open KDE with "KDE" color schema
   RESULT: Light text on light background. (shot2.png)

OBSERVED RESULT

When the color schema is set to Normal (Kate settings), only the light system theme works properly. The dark breeze theme is Dark on Dark. 

When the color schema is set to KDE (Kate settings), only the dark system theme works properly. The light breeze theme is  light on light. 


EXPECTED RESULT

Kate should support system color schemes.
Comment 1 leftcrane 2020-01-12 02:06:01 UTC
Created attachment 125048 [details]
light on light
Comment 2 leftcrane 2020-01-12 02:06:33 UTC
dark on dark and light on light should be reversed. Wrong descriptions but can't edit.
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2020-01-13 02:39:21 UTC
There's a "Breeze Dark" color scheme meant for this, but I agree, the default editor color scheme should respect the system color scheme's colors so you don't need to change anything in Kate when you change the system color scheme.

See also the discussion at https://phabricator.kde.org/T11064
Comment 4 postix 2020-05-14 17:13:31 UTC
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #3)
> There's a "Breeze Dark" color scheme meant for this, but I agree, the
> default editor color scheme should respect the system color scheme's colors
> so you don't need to change anything in Kate when you change the system
> color scheme.
> 
> See also the discussion at https://phabricator.kde.org/T11064

This is bothering me a lot too, as a sometimes change the color scheme during daylight to bright and at night to dark.

Do you think it can be fixed for 20.04.X? That'd be too awesome! ;)
Comment 5 postix 2020-05-14 17:16:58 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 315141 ***