Add a Dark Mode

Priyansh2422U

I think something like this should happen in Windows also

mataha

+1. As it is right now, changing appearance doesn't do enough.

cwtrex

+1 to dark mode please and thank you!

nrader

Yes please, as much as i like to use this player on windows, not having dark mode is a big enough reason not to. (when you often use pc at night it really hurts the eyes!)

baloo

another vote for a proper (good looking) dark mode. the settings in appearance just don't do it, in windows.

treakzy_

using it on endeavourOS and loving it. definitely my favorite music player!
still i wish there was a proper dark mode or a way to change skins or something

Piuser

Ditto on this, this would be a good option.

jonas

The foreground and background colors in the appearance settings won't work properly with dark mode, it is intended for setting minor color adjustments.

Windows
There is work in progress getting Qt 6 programs to respect themes set through the settings on Windows: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-72028

macOS
Dark mode already works on macOS, the alternate colors being too contrasted was fixed a while back, you can also turn off the "Use alternating row colors" in the playlist settings.

Linux
On Linux, I'm not sure that there is any way to set a dark theme other than through the KDE settings, but correct me if I'm wrong, however that also requires Strawberry to be compiled with Qt 5 since KDE is still currently Qt 5.

nrader

@jonas you arent really required to use KDE or have KDE installed at all.
The alternative is configure qt5 through qt5ct.
The apps can sometimes ignore settings set this way (maybe its depend if there were kde files in home or something, i'm not sure), but there is a environment variable for that.
Putting

export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct

in your profile does the trick.

And yeah, using Qt6 is not the best option for Linux if you want to configure it adequately, i dont remember seeing equivalent of qt5ct for Qt6, at least in distros that i'm using.

jonas

@nrader
I know about qt5ct / qt6ct (https://github.com/trialuser02/qt6ct). However, correct me if I'm wrong, but even when setting the style to Breeze and the Color Scheme to Darker, the contrast isn't good and the alternating row colors are gone, not like KDE. But maybe it's the closest you'll get without running KDE and Strawberry with Qt 5.

nrader

@jonas Well in my experience all KDE-related theme stuff are generally behaves rather bad in other DEs, especially in gtk-based environment. And breeze is kde default theme, so it applies too, i guess.

But Qt themes not related to KDE usually behave ok everywhere from my experience. I'm personally using QtCurve configured to mimic my gtk3 Adwaita-dark theme under gnome shell, and it looks fine.

Anyway, what im trying to say is, as long as other qt themes work fine, and breeze works in kde, it should probably be fine. Compared to windows, at least.

p.s. Ok there qt6ct actually, but its only present in fedora and arch official repositories, and not others. For most users its as good as not present, as they probably wont bother trying to compile from github.