[Interest] Dark mode for other platforms

Allan Sandfeld Jensen kde at carewolf.com
Wed Oct 16 14:14:43 CEST 2019


On Wednesday, 16 October 2019 13:59:54 CEST Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 15/10/2019 13:46, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 15 October 2019 11:58:42 CEST Vadim Peretokin wrote:
> >> Hello!
> >> 
> >> I've noticed that Qt on macOS now automatically uses dark mode, and it
> >> looks amazing
> >> <https://www.mudlet.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/unknown.png>. My
> >> question is: how can I enable this for Windows and Linux as well?
> > 
> > Linux and Window have had such modes forever.
> 
> Well, I wouldn't say "forever" in the case of Windows. It only got a
> dark mode theme exactly 1 year ago (October 2018.) Which is one month
> *after* macOS 10.14 was released (September 2018.)

Windows have had color schemes since at least Window95. It recently added a 
single button to switch the default white color scheme to a dark one, instead 
of selecting a dark on from a list of schemes, but the ability to change them 
has existed for 25 years if not more.

'Allan




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