Bug 502988 - Dolphin does not display colors correctly for Windows dark theme
Summary: Dolphin does not display colors correctly for Windows dark theme
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: dolphin
Classification: Applications
Component: view-engine: general (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 25.04.0
Platform: Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dolphin Bug Assignee
URL:
Keywords:
: 503996 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2025-04-18 22:02 UTC by rain ding
Modified: 2025-05-14 08:15 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Error displaying dolphin window on windows 10! (223.97 KB, image/png)
2025-04-23 20:47 UTC, rain ding
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attachment-776178-0.html (1.24 KB, text/html)
2025-04-24 02:13 UTC, rain ding
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attachment-777273-0.html (1.71 KB, text/html)
2025-04-24 02:17 UTC, rain ding
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Description rain ding 2025-04-18 22:02:32 UTC
The window theme for dolphin in Windows10 in dark mode is not displayed correctly, the toolbar is white and the text below the thumbnails is black.
Comment 1 TraceyC 2025-04-22 21:17:13 UTC
Thanks for filing this bug report. Unfortunately there isn't enough information for us to try to figure out what's happening. Please add information about your system as requested in the bug report template. Copy and paste this with the information into a new comment.

Also, it would be helpful if you could attach a screenshot of the Dolphin window to the report.
Thanks.

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Comment 2 John Kizer 2025-04-23 03:57:26 UTC
Updating status, thanks!
Comment 3 rain ding 2025-04-23 20:47:00 UTC
Created attachment 180588 [details]
Error displaying dolphin window on windows 10!

I'm sorry, I don't know how to program related work, I'm just a hobbyist, first time submitting a bug, there are a lot of things I'm not sure about, thank you for your guidance!
Comment 4 John Kizer 2025-04-24 01:26:12 UTC
Thanks for the screenshot - can you please provide the version of Dolphin that you're using, and how it was installed (website download, Microsoft store, etc.)?
Comment 5 rain ding 2025-04-24 02:13:11 UTC
Created attachment 180594 [details]
attachment-776178-0.html

https://cdn.kde.org/ci-builds/system/dolphin/release-25.04/windows/

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On 4月 24 2025, at 9:26 上午, John Kizer <bugzilla_noreply@kde.org> wrote:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=502988
>
> John Kizer <john.kizer@proton.me> changed:
> What |Removed |Added
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Status|REPORTED |NEEDSINFO
> Resolution|--- |WAITINGFORINFO
>
> --- Comment #4 from John Kizer <john.kizer@proton.me> ---
> Thanks for the screenshot - can you please provide the version of Dolphin that
> you're using, and how it was installed (website download, Microsoft store,
> etc.)?
>
> --
> You are receiving this mail because:
> You reported the bug.
>
Comment 6 rain ding 2025-04-24 02:17:02 UTC
Created attachment 180595 [details]
attachment-777273-0.html

I have been downloading from this url for a week. Every day I will download and reinstall the trial, but there is no change at all.

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On 4月 24 2025, at 10:12 上午, Rain Ding <sulasalias@emailasso.net> wrote:
> https://cdn.kde.org/ci-builds/system/dolphin/release-25.04/windows/
>
>
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> On 4月 24 2025, at 9:26 上午, John Kizer <bugzilla_noreply@kde.org> wrote:
> > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=502988
> >
> > John Kizer <john.kizer@proton.me> changed:
> > What |Removed |Added
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Status|REPORTED |NEEDSINFO
> > Resolution|--- |WAITINGFORINFO
> >
> > --- Comment #4 from John Kizer <john.kizer@proton.me> ---
> > Thanks for the screenshot - can you please provide the version of Dolphin that
> > you're using, and how it was installed (website download, Microsoft store,
> > etc.)?
> >
> > --
> > You are receiving this mail because:
> > You reported the bug.
> >
>
Comment 7 TraceyC 2025-04-24 15:23:43 UTC
Thanks for the additional information.  The screenshots are very helpful.
I see two parts to the bug.
1 - The file names are invisible. This was reported fixed by another Windows user in bug 487002 but clearly it's still present or has regressed
2 - The dark theme not being applied to all elements in the Dolphin window (white bars etc)

I'll let the more experienced Dolphin maintainers take it from here.
Comment 8 John Kizer 2025-05-14 06:31:50 UTC
*** Bug 503996 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Jeremy Bassett 2025-05-14 08:15:07 UTC
Hello, I am the person who submitted the duplicate bug report (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=503996).

I also noticed that a similar problem appears when I use KDE Connect for the same Windows system. Specifically, when KDE Connect is active, it has an icon that appears in the notification area of the taskbar. When I right-click that icon, the context menu that appears also has this same color-scheme problem appears...it is a white context menu background with white text. The user interface of the program itself is fine, though...that seems to work with the Windows dark theme just fine.

Sooo...maybe some of the KDE windows apps have fixed interface colors that don't automatically adapt to Windows' theme changes? That is how the problem appears to me. 🤷‍♂️