in macOS, newer versions of Tk are system theme aware, ie. light and dark mode. I actually disabled this on purpose so Pd always stays in "light mode" until we can integrate theme handling.
In this case, I think something similar s happening where Tk is picking up the window manager's theme and applying it to standard UI stuff such as default text color and window/widget background colors. The explicit Pd canvas stuff stays the default PD colors of course.
There is an implementation in a PR right now that would be good to look at. I was planning on experimenting with it and Tks mode handling directly over the holidays but did not have time in the end.
On Feb 4, 2022, at 5:28 AM, pd-list-request@lists.iem.at wrote:
Message: 5 Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2022 20:28:32 -0800 From: Miller Puckette <msp@ucsd.edu mailto:msp@ucsd.edu> To: rafael.raccuia@blindekinder.com mailto:rafael.raccuia@blindekinder.com Cc: pd-list@lists.iem.at mailto:pd-list@lists.iem.at Subject: Re: [PD] KDE: how to change window color, too dark... Message-ID: <YfyrcP8osorDlzZE@ucsd.edu mailto:YfyrcP8osorDlzZE@ucsd.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Hi Rafael -
I don't know why the colors aren't the standard (black and white) that are baked into the Pd code. Pd should be ignoring the theme setting on your desktop.
Just for a test, can you see if the colors change when you change your theme?
cheers Miller
On Tue, Feb 01, 2022 at 09:50:42PM +0100, rafael.raccuia@blindekinder.com mailto:rafael.raccuia@blindekinder.com wrote:
Hi, I'm on KDE, the main theme is Breeze. Most apps are ok, but PD is too dark, with few contrast (black on dark grey), and I cant know if checkboxes are checked or not (light grey on white). I use PD 0.50.
How can I change the colors?
thank you!
rph-r
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