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mimi89999:
Hello,
I noticed that C::B is mixing system colors with custom hard coded default colors. This makes C::B look strange/ugly on system themes with non standard color palettes and parts of the UI unusable and some text illegible on systems with a dark theme enabled or with an inverted color palette.
You can clearly see this issue on this screenshot: https://sourceforge.net/p/codeblocks/tickets/943/attachment/Capture%20d%E2%80%99%C3%A9cran%20du%202020-04-06%2008-56-33.png
Obviously, there are two possibilities. C::B could either try to use system color theme as much as possible or use a custom theme. I think that the first option is the way to go since C::B is already using UI elements (widgets) from the platform.
There is quite some choice of system colors: https://docs.wxwidgets.org/3.1/settings_8h.html#a44ad26cbd8d579d1b7eff7015c8bd24b
A already made a patch correcting link colors in the start page: https://sourceforge.net/p/codeblocks/tickets/943/ and investigated caption text color in pane info. `wxBLACK` is hardcoded in AUI in wxWidgets: https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/blob/master/src/aui/dockart.cpp#L330, but I have a WIP patch for C::B. I also plan to fix toolbox border and tabs.
There is still one problem though. C::B lets users change UI colors. I don't know how it should work with hybrid system themes with a white and dark mode. Color overrides will be applied regardless of the theme. Maybe C::B should have separate color options for the theme variants?
BlueHazzard:
--- Quote ---A already made a patch correcting link colors in the start page:
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I have not found the patch. Have you uploaded it, or are you going to fix more, before you upload it?
oBFusCATed:
About defaults: Use the colour manager and just make the defaults to be using the system colours.
About notebooks: You're using gtk3 I suppose, because in gtk2 we have a native dock art, but this doesn't look possible in gtk3. I won't bother with the default aui arts, they are plain ugly and old looking. I plan to make something 100% custom. Probably reuse the work done in CodeLite or replicate the notebook in Firefox or similar. I don't know yet.
About panel names: There is a button in the settings to auto-detect the colours after a theme change, so I'm not sure what you want to change there.
mimi89999:
> I have not found the patch. Have you uploaded it, or are you going to fix more, before you upload it?
Sorry. I forgot the patch in the ticket.
oBFusCATed:
I'll take a look soon.
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