Dark Mode for Windows?

[loyukfai]

Is it possible to implement a dark mode for Windows? (and possibly other OS too)

Something just follow the system setting would be nice.

Thanks in advance.

[xiaoyifang]

can be achieved with custom style sheets
https://github.com/goldendict/goldendict/wiki/GoldenDict-Dark-Theme

[loyukfai]

Thanks! But can I make it automatically follow the system-wide theme change which happens on sunrise and sundown?

Cheers.

[leanhdung1994]

There is a great dark theme here https://github.com/Giai-Ngo/Goldendict-theme/tree/main/Dark%20theme.

[xiaoyifang]

license is Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.0)
does it compatible with gpl3?

[leanhdung1994]

license is Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.0) does it compatible with gpl3?

Honestly, I don't know...

[BEST8OY]

@xiaoyifang
Why it doesn't get fully dark ?(arch linux)

[xiaoyifang]

How do you customize the stylesheet?
I guess there are some styles has not been applied.

[BEST8OY]

How do you customize the stylesheet? I guess there are some styles has not been applied.

I applied them as guided in these two theme
https://github.com/Giai-Ngo/Goldendict-theme/tree/main/Dark%20theme
https://github.com/goldendict/goldendict/wiki/GoldenDict-Dark-Theme
Maybe these themes are old?

[xiaoyifang]

seems like that the style has lack the dark style for toolbar /menu

[xiaoyifang]

[shenlebantongying]

On macOS, there is already a native dark mode (with glitches that should be fixed).

On Linux, modifying the default style is a norm. The proper way to have a dark theme on linux should be

• using a Qt-based DE like lxqt or KDE
• use Qt theme changer like qt5ct
• use a DE/disto that has better Qt support like Xfce or Fedora.

Doing dark theming on our side should be limited to Windows only.

[xiaoyifang]

https://www.qt.io/blog/dark-mode-on-windows-11-with-qt-6.5