[Interest] Dark mode for other platforms

Mårten Nordheim marten.nordheim at qt.io
Wed Oct 16 14:19:16 CEST 2019


On 16.10.2019 13:59, 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.)

Dark theme / dark mode was added in August 2016 :)
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2016/08/08/windows-10-tip-personalize-your-pc-by-enabling-the-dark-theme/

Mårten


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