Created attachment 177063 [details] dolphins instances Dolphin Version 24.12.0 KDE Frameworks Version 6.8.0 Qt Version 6.7.2 (built against 6.7.2) The xcb windowing system Please see the attached image and someone please explain to me what is HAPPENING! One dolphin is run from shortcut. another dolphin is run from terminal another dolphin is run from menu bar. Can you guess is who and what theme is applying to each other? I have install a lot of settings and set all to breezer dark. eg. kde settings, lxqt settings, kvantum, qt5ct, plasma settings etc. Nothing really worked (!!!), until I read and created a custom file "dolphin_use_profile.qss" with this line to set dark background on dolphin (afterwards set to gray to test). A you can see , dolphin's bakground in any of these instances is not even in any dark/gray mode! I think an appearance configuration is missing from dolphin. I have found a lot of complains around internet about these. Most of them they failed to turn background of dolphin into dark except applying direct hacks. Can you tell me what to ad the custom qss to make the dolphins background dark in ALL instances of dolphin? ``` DolphinViewContainer > DolphinView > QAbstractScrollArea { background-color: gray; } ```
note that in my ~/.bashrc alias dolphin='dolphin -stylesheet $HOME/dolphin_use_profile.qss'
I found out that dolphin for some reason was using BreezeLight.colors instead of BreezeDark.colors. so any change to the dark colors had no effect on dolphin! So my only option was to copy light into dark color file. ``` sudo cp BreezeLight.colors BreezeLight.colors_copy /usr/share/color-schemes$ sudo cp BreezeDark.colors BreezeLight.colors ```
i just made another finding running `sudo systemsettings` the selected theme was the breezer light one and not the breezer dark!
running from terminal, yet the dark theme is not applied saying: dolphin kf.config.core: Watching absolute paths is not supported "/usr/share/color-schemes/BreezeLight.colors"
> eg. kde settings, lxqt settings, kvantum, qt5ct, plasma settings etc. > Nothing really worked (!!!) Well that's the problem; you're trying to apply multiple theme systems and they're stomping all over one another. Dolphin currently doesn't support manually or automatically entering "dark mode" when run outside of Plasma. It will do this automatically within Plasma though, since it respects the system's color scheme. But none of the methods you're using are guaranteed to work, and offering support for them it out of the scope of what's appropriate in a bug report, I'm afraid. So let's use this bug report to request a manual color scheme switcher, which many other KDE apps have at this point, and which can be useful when running the app outside of Plasma.