GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 649358
Use dark Gtk+ theme variant when using white-on-black colour scheme
Last modified: 2017-05-29 15:55:33 UTC
I use a white-on-black colour scheme in my terminals. The bright white Gtk+ resize grip in the bottom-right-hand corner of the window looks quite out of place. (It looks even more out of place when I have more than one tab, because it overlaps the two-pixel frame around the terminal contents rather than being nicely tucked inside it—I'm inclined to think that the frame is the problem, not the grip, but that's another bug.) The grip looks less out of place when I use a black-on-white colour scheme. (It also looks less out of place when I turn on the scrollbar.) So I wonder whether gnome-terminal should set the “use a dark Gtk+ theme variant please” flag when a dark colour scheme is in use.
Should get the design team input on this first.
Here's a quick gallery of combinations: http://willthompson.co.uk/misc/terminals.png Legend: no tab frame tab frame dark gtk theme light gtk theme light gtk theme Disappointingly, Gtk+ doesn't let you turn off the tab frame if the tabs are visible. Nor is it possible to pick light vs. dark per-window: it seems to be application-global.
AFAIK there's no resize grip anymore in gnome 3.4 (see bug 654297 and http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-themes-standard/commit/?id=abb0babf5bfd53f8c1d454f4c60347186df2136c ). Has that changed?
(In reply to comment #3) > AFAIK there's no resize grip anymore in gnome 3.4 (see bug 654297 and > http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-themes-standard/commit/?id=abb0babf5bfd53f8c1d454f4c60347186df2136c > ). Huh! Great news. (I'm using Gnome 3.2.) I kind of slightly think the dark theme looks better around the dark background, but that's a matter of opinion I suppose :)
<metoo> Even with both the resize grip and the tab frame already gone in 3.6, an option to use the dark theme variant would nevertheless be a great addition for people who use white-on-black terminals. (I'd be fine with having to enable it manually in dconf, if the "application-global" limitation causes confusion for normal users.) </metoo>
I agree that using a dark version of Adwaita for terminal looks much nicer. I would also suggest to switch terminal color defaults to white on black and make terminal app to opt in and use dark gtk theme by default.
*** Bug 693960 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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