SUMMARY openSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Global theme: Dark Breeze 2. In Kate, select Settings > Color Theme either Default or Breeze Dark. 3. OBSERVED RESULT Only the windows frame changes. The text are remains black text on a black background, which is not readable. Even when a Light theme is chosen, the text area doesn't change at all. EXPECTED RESULT The text color to be light. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Windows: macOS: Linux/KDE Plasma: (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: KDE Frameworks Version: Qt Version: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
This is fixed by the theming rewrite for Frameworks 5.75. Details see https://kate-editor.org/post/2020/2020-09-13-kate-color-themes-5.75/ The colors should now be adapt a bit better, in no case such bad things shall happen. (as no bundled theme has such bad colors set)