Dark theme.

sergio

It's extremly hard to use forum with dark theme:

This is firefox 64.0 on debian sid with dark theme and GTK_THEME="Adwaita:dark"

scottalanmiller

That's a Firefox issue. Try Chrome, I bet it fixes it.

PitaJ

It's specifically Firefox following the GTK settings. I bet there's an about:config setting for it.

PitaJ

As I suspected, there is:

How can one make Firefox ignore my GTK theme entirely?

I have a dark GTK theme installed in my Ubuntu 10.10 install and a persona installed for Firefox that I also like. The problem is that Firefox is using my dark GTK theme for items like buttons and...

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jtsimoes

I use this plugin instead: https://github.com/psychobunny/nodebb-plugin-night-mode

It keeps the dark theme setting on, after you choose it once.

rfc2822

Please don't use Chrome to workaround this.

It's just that html.composing body.page-topic.page-topic-13568.page-topic-dark-theme.page-topic-category-10.page-topic-category-nodebb-themes.page-status-200.skin-paper div.composer.resizable.reply div.composer-container div.row.write-preview-container div.write-container textarea.write doesn't have background: white, as you can see in the excellent Firefox DOM inspector. In the NodeBB stylesheet, textarea has color: inherit, but no background: inherit. So the browser stylesheet for textarea's 'background' is used, which is the theme background by default, which is dark in this case.

Some digging shows that these values come from normalize.css 3.0.2. Seems like this is the same problem as this one: https://github.com/necolas/normalize.css/issues/469

This has been fixed in normalize.css in Jan 2016 by removing color: inherit. In the case of a dark background (coming from the Gtk theme), the text should now be white (or whatever the Gtk theme says) instead of dark, which makes the text readable.

Suggested fix: use a version of normalize.css later than Jan 2016

PS: Maybe Chrome is just not able to show the dark Gtk theme? Could be an enhancement request

julian

@rfc2822 hm, well we don't normalize anything. Bootstrap does, however, although I can't imagine why they'd be using a version of normalize that is older than Jan 2016!