Dark Theme with light page color setting

[Andreas-Kainz]

as libreoffice has two settings for dark mode

1. dark mode of the UI elemnts
2. dark dokument page color

Can we have two UI elements one for dark mode (as it is now) which change 1. and 2. and a second UI element if the user want to switch 2. So by default dark mode mean 1. and 2. are dark but the user can overrule the dokument page color with light?

Office Dark Theme

Dark/Light document page color

I would prefer to have two buttons

• one toggle for dark theme and
• one toggle for dark background color

[Andreas-Kainz]

OnlyOffice

[timur-g]

If browser is set to dark (or OS set to Dark and browser inheriting), Online automatically sets dark document background.
That makes it a bug now, as most text is not readable if not Automatic.
I support having two buttons, one for Dark UI and another for Dark Tiles.
That should be #4742.

[Tex2002ans]

Can we have two UI elements one for dark mode [...]

Yes. Fully agree.

Separating out the:

• UI + Page Color

for Dark Mode is key.

In LibreOffice's Bug #153334: "Support/default to a non-white page background in Dark Mode", I wrote:

Having an easy-to-access "page color" toggle would help, because all 4 options could be taken:

• Light UI + White Page
• Light UI + Dark Page
• Dark UI + White Page
  • (This is what I prefer most of the time.)
• Dark UI + Dark Page

This is especially helpful when dealing with colors + contrast issues.

Automatically turning on a DARK PAGE as well, is just asking for all sorts of color/contrast troubles too.

(Already see black-on-black text or very-dark-text-on-dark-background issues.)

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Side Note: Over the years, I've written extensively about this "black-on-black text" problem in ebooks:

• 2016: MobileRead.com: "Problem with inline image"
  • Where I show images of Dark Mode mixed with color/highlight/transparency failing.
• 2020: "Colored Text, EPUB, Android Dark Mode"
  • I described a few of the Android ebook readers + flipping background color.
• 2020: "eBook Formatting in Sigil"
  • Discussing how Amazon handles files with Direct Formatting (forced color text) inside.
  • (They ignore/strip pure black on ingestion.)

and, related:

• /r/LibreOffice: "Viewing textbook pdfs in dark mode"

where I described "Inverting Colors" properly or "Dark Moding" your PDFs. For example, see:

• IMAGE showing Default/White vs. Inverted vs. YCC-Inverted pages

You can look to many of these other projects for:

• inspiration
• + warnings of what type of issues/complaints are coming down the pipeline when you flip background colors. :)

[derei]

I see the last discussion on this topic is from June 2023, and I wanted to ask if is it possible to have dark theme with white page, or not just yet?
As many others have suggested, white page is a necessity for any document processor. Usually people want to print on paper their documents, and working on a dark page, even if output is reversed, makes it extremely difficult to work with images, charts, colours in general, in an intuitive and predictable manner.

Perhaps from developer perspective this may not seem as an urgent matter, but from user perspective it can easily become a deal breaker, especially in professional environments.

[Ornanovitch]

I believe there is a recent PR that solve this: #8564

Would be nice to see this merged :)

[derei]

I believe there is a recent PR that solve this: #8564

Would be nice to see this merged :)

I hope it will. I'm not very familiar with the specifics of Collabora code, but judging by that snippet alone, I see no reason why it shouldn't be merged.