Dark mode does not work

[newyorkthink]

AppimGe format
i3wm
latest version 7

restart it

dark not working

[davemilter]

For me, the right pane (with content, not empty) has proper dark mode,
but the left pane with search results is white color, that hurt eyes in dark room.

[Dushistov]

Looks like this is Qt 6 vs Qt 5 issues.

Here how zeal 0.7.0 looks with Qt6 and "dark" theme selected with help of qt6ct:

and here are Qt5 and qt5ct:

assistant from Qt6 has the same problem in compare with assistant from Qt5.

[novaTopFlex]

Unsure about my current Qt version, but one of my Dash Docsets (Mastodon, a user contribution) is already on a dark background color by default and becomes brighter when my browser is set to dark mode. I have reverted to using light mode by the way.

[hatifnatt]

Issue is still actual and it's definitely related to Qt6, after my distro upgraded to Qt6 dark theme for docs are gone, only app UI is dark. And yes, that hurts eyes...

[trollixx]

Zeal relies on Qt for widget styling. On Linux it used to be very well supported and consistent. Unfortunately, with Qt 6 that's no longer true in many cases. One possible solution would be using dark mode aware Fusion style by default. Adding style selector in the settings would let users choose any other style if they managed to figure out Qt styling on their systems.

Running Zeal with -style Fusion should also do the trick without any code changes.

[guidomz]

Using qt5ct on Debian Bookwork, I managed to darken the Zeal version from the Debian packages (v0.6.2-dev) by running as instructed:

Running Zeal with -style Fusion should also do the trick without any code changes.

However, I still can't make this work on the AppImage release of Zeal (0.7.1).

[trollixx]

However, I still can't make this work on the AppImage release of Zeal (0.7.1).

AppImage probably doesn't include the style. And it bundles its own version of Qt. Not sure how would system-wide settings work in this scenario. Maybe we should use Fusion style by default...

[guidomz]

...Maybe we should use Fusion style by default...

Thanks for simply considering. I'm crossing my fingers....