GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 742088
Epiphany’s private browsing mode looks weird when the global dark theme is enabled
Last modified: 2015-06-12 17:17:13 UTC
Created attachment 293433 [details] Screenshot showing Epiphany in incognito mode with the global dark theme enabled. In the attached screenshot, the tab bar is dark, as it should be, but the header bar is not. Furthermore, the icons are difficult to recognize and the color contrast between the text of the page name and URL and the header bar is so low that one could easily not notice they are there at all. I guess this means it is necessary to make another style for the incognito mode when the dark theme is enabled. It should be dark, of course.
This issue is also preventing other themes other than Adwaita from theming Epiphany private browsing windows, see: https://github.com/horst3180/Vertex-theme/issues/59#issuecomment-78093217 Quoting from that comment: “I think the bug here is on epiphany's side. It should only load the stylesheet when using Adwaita (Gedit does this for example) and it should be made compatible with the dark variant, by using non hardcoded colors, derived from the theme.”
See also bug #734119 for a patch from Lapo, which redoes the incognito mode theme. Not sure if it fixes this though.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 734119 ***
Created attachment 305169 [details] screenshot - new theme Here's a screenshot of the new incognito mode theme when the global dark theme is also enabled.