File Progress Bar Too Faint in Dark Mode

[hairycactus]

Observed Behaviour:

In Dark Mode, the File Progress bar is too faint & inconspicuous, especially when the progress is < 40-50 %. So it often seems that nothing is happening for several seconds (or minutes) when a file is being processed.

In contrast, the Taskbar Progress bar has good visibility.

Tested:

v1.1 (30 Mar 2020) - v1.1.5 (27 Jun 2021): Affected

OS:

Win 10 x64 (Dark Mode)

Screenshot:

[Ted-Egan]

I am unable to find a means to turn off dark mode. Has one been provided?

[hairycactus]

@Ted-Egan: I am unable to find a means to turn off dark mode. Has one been provided?

As far as I can see, there is no user option to select dark vs light/ bright mode in fre:ac at any of the following places:

• fre:ac's GUI
• freac.xml config file
• command-line parameter (eg. --dark or --bright)

Apparently, fre:ac follows the default system theme set in the user's OS.

So as of now, for fre:ac to run in light/ bright display mode, one has to set the OS to light theme.

User @Divzed posted a feature request about this at:

• Add some options to the encoder configuration windows. #551

• Add new entries to Options > General Settings > fre:ac > Interface:
  • Select Theme [Dark/Light/System]

Something for developer @enzo1982 to consider in future releases of fre:ac.