Hi, first thank you for Kate - it is top level editor, compared to other text editors such as Sublime Text. I would like to request one feature: Please add easy way to switch between Light and Dark syntax highlight themes. For example during the day I use Gruvbox Light and during the night I use Gruvbox Dark. It will be helpful if the switching is done with a keyboard shortcut. Otherwise it is too many clicks for something that happens every day (I am using the editor on daily basis). To clarify again - I am talking about Editor Color Theme, not Window Color Scheme. I suggest providing the user with an optional keyboard shortcut (toggle). No need to assign a default key, user can configure it via "Configure Keyboard Shortcuts". SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Kate Version 23.08.5 Operating System: Kubuntu 24.04 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.11 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.115.0 Qt Version: 5.15.13
I am not sure we should do this.
Ok, what about another option: expose a dbus interface to set theme by name. Then I will write a bash script to change the theme via dbus and use KDE Global Shorcuts to call the script.
Is this more feasible with the work being done on changing the global theme based on time of day?
That is unrelated. If one wants e.g. settings to say what the auto light and dark theme should be, that will need some patch.
(In reply to Christoph Cullmann from comment #4) > That is unrelated. If one wants e.g. settings to say what the auto light and > dark theme should be, that will need some patch. And I misread the bug, that was an other one with the theme defaults. Kate will adapt to the global theme change.