First of all, thanks for your outstanding work: installing Papirus is one of my first moves, no matter the desktop and distro.
One remark though: applications that use a GTK dark mode by default - such as most GTK photo viewers and media players - suffer from a "dark on dark" problem as regards small icons.
To see this, open for example Eye of Gnome, then click on the menu button, then "open...": the GTK file selector opens in dark mode. When using Papirus or Papirus Light, folders in the file selector's main panel are dark-colored, hence dark on dark. This results in poor legibility.
This is not a problem under an overall dark theme, as you'd then be using Papirus Dark.
A possible workaround is to edit the application launcher so that it no longer uses the dark mode.
Another solution could be for small icons to be coloured just like the slightly larger ones, instead of being black or white. Could that be an option?
SmartFinn
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4 years ago
Hello,
First of all, thanks for your outstanding work: installing Papirus is one of my first moves, no matter the desktop and distro.
One remark though: applications that use a GTK dark mode by default - such as most GTK photo viewers and media players - suffer from a "dark on dark" problem as regards small icons.
To see this, open for example Eye of Gnome, then click on the menu button, then "open...": the GTK file selector opens in dark mode. When using Papirus or Papirus Light, folders in the file selector's main panel are dark-colored, hence dark on dark. This results in poor legibility.
This is not a problem under an overall dark theme, as you'd then be using Papirus Dark.
A possible workaround is to edit the application launcher so that it no longer uses the dark mode.
Another solution could be for small icons to be coloured just like the slightly larger ones, instead of being black or white. Could that be an option?
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Thanks in advance.