Menus are unreadable in dark mode for me
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@mere-human Thanks. I tried several times, but it remains the same. It’s been this way solidly for the last three updates of n++.
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@Roy-Grubb
can you try switching Windows to dark mode too?
NPP 8.1.3 is about 96% ready for dark mode.
Menus might still use the system theme. -
@artie-finkelstein Thanks. I’d earlier looked at that and couldn’t see any way I could control menu text colour. I’m not using the Global override so the Default style is active, and that has Foreground colour black, and background white.
I did try changing back/foreground colours in Global override and using that, but it made no difference to menu text colours.
I will experiment with Windows dark mode, but I don’t want to use that permanently. I use the green border because I find borderless windows a bad UI - windows appear to merge. -
@Roy-Grubb Correction - In Windows Settings, Windows is set to dark mode, Apps to light.
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@Stefan-Pendl Thanks for further suggestions.
What I have is default Windows mode set to Dark already, default app mode set to light. Whether Windows app mode is set to dark or light, the response of n++ to its own dark mode doesn’t change. Meaning the main editing window shows dark mode nicely and the menus are as shown in the attached image, so basically unusable.
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It could be nice to see the Debug Info here (in “?” menu).
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@mere-human OK, never spotted that.
Notepad++ v8.1.2 (64-bit)
Build time : Jul 16 2021 - 01:59:50
Path : C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
Command Line :
Admin mode : OFF
Local Conf mode : OFF
Cloud Config : OFF
OS Name : Windows 10 Pro (64-bit)
OS Version : 2009
OS Build : 19043.1165
Current ANSI codepage : 1252
Plugins : mimeTools.dll NppConverter.dll NppExport.dll -
Maybe, it is related to your setup of Windows colors in Settings > Personalization.
I’d also try changing something there and see if it helps.
If you want someone from the developers to look at this problem, you can create a GitHub issue and provide all the details.
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#reporting-issues -
@mere-human Thanks, yes, I’ve tried that and haven’t found any combination that works. I’ll see if the developers consider it to be a bug.
Thanks again.
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@Roy-Grubb
exactly the same here, also with NPP 8.1.3; just want to open a discussion about it, but now will wait what happens here :o) -
by the way,
fresh install on a server 2012R2 shows also in dark mode menus as expected
(black foreground, grey background, perfectly readable)
so something is missconfigured on my W10, I guess :o( -
Here is a GitHub issue:
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/10386
You can see some additional comments there.
