Can you make it for windows ?

[Janaue]

hello

I use claw mail version 3.17.3 on windows 10 LTSC 1809, but claw mail is all white. I seek a dark theme and yours is, but can you make a version for windows or at least tell me how can get it to work for windows ?

regards

[SmartFinn]

The project provides the icon themes only. It doesn't help you to change a window color.

[Janaue]

how do they get the dark theme here ?

[SmartFinn]

By installing Arc-Dark GTK theme, but I don't sure that you can installing the theme on Windows.

[barelyprofessional]

You can install this on Windows but it obviously requires some effort as you have to install the GTK theme. Here's the gist of what I did:

• Download an already built version of the theme (it's not sufficient to download the GitHub version as it's just the source). The version I obtained was from Debian https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/all/arc-theme/download
• Unpack the deb file and its inner data.tar archive using 7-Zip or similar
• Copy the contents of usr/share/themes/ to the themes folder in your Claws-Mail installation (C:\Program Files\Claws Mail\share\themes for me)
• Run Notepad as Administrator and open the GTK settings file: C:\Program Files\Claws Mail\etc\gtk-3.0\settings.ini (Claws 4 uses GTK 3, Claws 3 uses GTK 2)
• Update the gtk-theme-name property from windows71 to match the folder name of the theme you want, e.g. Arc-Dark
• Restart Claws-Mail and install icon theme as per normal

Note for some themes (e.g. Arc-Darker) you need to uncomment gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme