The dark system theme I have set seems to make some applications look funny, with dark boxes where they should be light. Is there any way I can manually set a theme on a per-application basis?

  • MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de
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    27 days ago

    Partially implimented system theme. Comments: oP MuSt wAnT It tO LoOk lIkE MiCrOsOfT!

    The only one who so-far realized the theming is the problem suggested a quick fix that will likely leave this issue cropping up again in other applications.

    Me: down-votes comments because I WANT there to be a better answer, not because I know one. Happy Monday, people!

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      26 days ago

      I think that other person was answering in good faith. They were trying to help, they just misunderstood what was being asked.

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        26 days ago

        Thus, that last line in my comment. My frustration in this case is just sooo much more to do with the issue than with comments.

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          25 days ago

          I don’t see the point in downvoting someone when they misunderstood something and OP clarified, but perhaps i just don’t understand Lemmy.

          If anything maybe I’d upvote the reply for visibility.

          Anyway you seem nice, please don’t take my comments personally. I think the groupmind that gave you a ton of upvotes and that other person a ton of downvotes just rubbed me the wrong way.

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            Where does this imply that I downvoted anything for the reasons you mentioned? There were maybe five or six comments prior to my own, and I downvoted all of them besides OPs(which I did upvote, tyvm - funny how that didn’t work out to you noticing).

            Less spammy than “trying to set the record straight” by correcting them all, nevermind that, as I stated, I don’t have a better solution anyways, but again, yes, I also up-voted the one-or-two comments that had anything to do with OPs problem, both clarifications by OP themselves.

            I’ve also up-voted other comments since, but there have been none talking about Ribbons and Tabs since, at least. Almost like what visibility my own comment got served its purpose.

            Things don’t have to be positive to work. Sometimes Loud Garbage can slow the buildup of even-more-useless-if-well-meaning garbage. Well-intentioned, useless, basically-un-true-in-context things only pass one of Socrates criteria, btw.

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      27 days ago

      Yes, actually, one of the preinstalled themes is activated. Normally you have to pick the option that says something along the lines of “don’t use themes” inside Tools/Preferences/LibreOffice/Application_Colors or something (depends on the language). That would make the desktop theme apply properly over LibreOffice.

      You might need to reboot LibreOffice to see the changes take effect.

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    26 days ago

    Normally LibreOffice would pick up on your theme automatically, strange why it’s like this. Are you using any different versions of LO? Flatpak version or Appimage? Appimage has a lot of issues with theming.

    This one’s an easy fix though, just go to Tools > Options > View and pick a theme option, that should work. If that doesn’t help then try re-installing or using a different version.

    Hope this was helpful!

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      26 days ago

      I guess it is flatpak, since it is the most popular way to install stuff in fedora. I guess this is the solution, but there most be a more easy way, for sure

      Still these things are the reason I stopped installing flatpaks pretty soon after I started 🤭

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        23 days ago

        Strange though, I’ve never had issues like this with flatpak… It might be possible ofc that it is flatpak but I suspect it’s the theme itself that’s faulty. Thanks for providing a solution btw!

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    27 days ago

    if you don’t find another solution, i have libreoffice installed via flatpak and this issue does not exist

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        I don’t know, stuff on the repos can be broken sometimes on some distros, i recall firefox on fedora with the missing codecs, opensuse and their flaky distrobox (or podman?) implementation.

        In my experience, repo versions of software is not totally consistent, even worse when compared to flatpak, if a flatpak breaks, it doesnt break on just ubuntu, or fedora, or arch; it breaks everywhere, and gets fixed everywhere too. Credit where credit is due, small utilities generally tend to have better experience when installed natively, like htop, fish, and some other small programs.

        Maybe i’m just a dumb software progressive, but flatpak generally is much more reliable for me than native repo versions of software.

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    I dont know if this could be your issue, however I had some strange big black shadows arround GTK apps. After trying all different possible themes, playing arround with config files, CSS… Nothing helped.

    However, on the Archlinux wiki, they mentioned something interesting: The compositor.

    While this really depends what DE and what compositor is installed on your distro by default, I got rid off all the strangeness by enabling something in the compositor.

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    26 days ago

    I had this problem, and it was definitely a theme issue.

    https://askubuntu.com/a/1372318 may be helpful in setting a theme just for libreoffice, it you’re using GTK themes. (Basically, override the GTK_THEME variable in the .desktop file). I haven’t tried it myself since I just switched to a different theme.

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    27 days ago

    Define normal? More like Ms Office? (Under tools if im not mistaken, you can select user interface and there you have the tabbed one)

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      27 days ago

      I mean the boxes for font and paragraph style are all dark when they should be light. I think it’s got to do with the system theme, I just wish I could selectively choose the theme for each application so dark mode doesn’t mess things up like this.

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        By default I have the same issue using KDE and a dark theme, what I do is set a specific theme inside LibreOffice. Another thing you can look for is setting another GTK theme or color scheme inside Customization on Plasma Settings