Linktext is hard to read in dark-mode

[noudAndi]

Expected behaviour

Links should have another color than dark-blue, when using the dark-mode

Actual behaviour

The Link text is dark blue and a bit hard to read ;)

Steps to reproduce

Have a look the the Changelog in the QOwnNotes Client

Output from the debug section in the settings dialog

Relevant log output (you have to enable enable the log widget)

==> THANKS for this awesome Tool!! I'm loving it! 😄

[pbek]

Thank you for your kind words. :)

Are you talking about the update dialog specifically? You didn't post your debug settings, did you manually turn on the dark mode in QOwnNotes? For me the colors in the preview are orange, not dark blue.

And in the update dialog the link color is a light blue. Those colors are taken from your operating system's configuration.

[noudAndi]

Hi,

thanks for your reply.

I'm using the dark Mode setting, which is offered in the Configuration "Settings -> Interface -> Enable dark mode"

All links within QOwnNotes are like the one in the screenshot.

Here are my Debug-Information (I deleted some personal information)

QOwnNotes Debug Information

General Info

Current Date: Mi Mai 31 10:00:21 2017 Version: 17.05.14 Build date: May 30 2017 Build number: 3031 Platform: windows Operating System: Windows 10 Build architecture: i386 Current architecture: x86_64 Release: AppVeyor Qt Version (build): 5.7.1 Qt Version (runtime): 5.7.1 Portable mode: yes Settings path / key: C:/Users/my_username/Downloads/QOwnNotes/Data/PBE/QOwnNotes.ini Application database path: C:\Users\my_username\Downloads\QOwnNotes\Data\QOwnNotes.sqlite Application arguments: C:\Users\my_username\Downloads\QOwnNotes\QOwnNotes.exe, --after-update, C:\Users\my_username\AppData\Local\Temp\QOwnNotes-P11044-updater.bat, --portable Qt Debug: 0 Locale (system): de_DE Locale (interface): empty Icon theme: breeze-dark-qownnotes Notes in current note folder: 438 Enabled scripts: 0

Server Info

serverUrl: https://my.server.de:8443 appIsValid: yes notesPathExists: yes serverVersion: 11.0.3.2 appVersion: 17.5.0

Note folders

currentNoteFolderId: 1

Note folder Standard

id: 1 isCurrent: yes activeTagId: -1 localPath: C:\Users\my_username\Downloads\QOwnNotes\Data\..\..\..\Nextcloud\Notes remotePath: Notes isShowSubfolders: no isUseGit: no activeNoteSubFolder name: empty database file: C:\Users\my_username\Downloads\QOwnNotes\Data\..\..\..\Nextcloud\Notes\notes.sqlite

Note folder MacroCom

id: 2 isCurrent: no activeTagId: 0 localPath: C:\Users\my_username\Downloads\QOwnNotes\Data\..\..\..\Documents\QownNotes remotePath: empty isShowSubfolders: no isUseGit: no activeNoteSubFolder name: empty database file: C:\Users\my_username\Downloads\QOwnNotes\Data\..\..\..\Documents\QownNotes\notes.sqlite

Enabled scripts

Settings

AboutDialog/geometry: <binary data> ActiveNoteHistoryItem: empty Debug/fakeOldVersionNumber: false Debug/fileLogging: false Editor/CurrentSchemaKey: EditorColorSchema-cdbf28fc-1ddc-4d13-bb21-6a4043316a2f Editor/autoBracketClosing: true Editor/autoBracketRemoval: true LastUpdateCheck: 2017-05-31T10:00:10 MainWindow/geometry: <binary data> MainWindow/mainToolBar.iconSize: 24 MainWindow/menuBarGeometry: <binary data> MainWindow/noteTextEdit.code.font: Courier New,9,-1,2,50,0,0,0,0,0 MainWindow/noteTextEdit.font: MS Shell Dlg 2,8.25,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0 MainWindow/noteTextView.code.font: Courier New,9,-1,2,50,0,0,0,0,0 MainWindow/noteTextView.font: MS Shell Dlg 2,8.25,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0 MainWindow/noteTextView.rtl: false MainWindow/showNotesFromAllNoteSubFolders: true NoteDiffDialog/geometry: <binary data> PiwikClientId: <hidden> SettingsDialog/geometry: <binary data> SettingsDialog/mainSplitterState: <binary data> ShowSystemTray: false UpdateDialog/geometry: <binary data> WelcomeDialog/geometry: <binary data> acceptAllExternalModifications: false allowDifferentNoteFileName: false allowOnlyOneAppInstance: false appMetrics/disableAppHeartbeat: false appMetrics/disableTracking: false appMetrics/notificationShown: true cryptoKey: <hidden> currentNoteFolderId: 1 currentWorkspace: b76f2e69-e678-4357-a908-306795682df0 customNoteFileExtensionList: empty darkMode: true darkModeColors: true darkModeTrayIcon: true defaultNoteFileExtension: md demoNotesCreated: true disableAutomaticUpdateDialog: false dockWasInitializedOnce: true externalEditorPath: empty gitCommitInterval: 30 gitExecutablePath: empty gitLogCommand: empty ignoreAllExternalModifications: true ignoreAllExternalNoteFolderChanges: false imageScaleDown: false imageScaleDownMaximumHeight: 1024 imageScaleDownMaximumWidth: 1024 insertTimeFormat: empty interfaceLanguage: empty internalIconTheme: false itemHeight: 15 markdownHighlightingEnabled: true networking/ignoreSSLErrors: false networking/proxyType: 2 noteSaveIntervalTime: 10 noteSubfoldersPanelDisplayAsFullTree: false noteSubfoldersPanelHideSearch: false noteSubfoldersPanelOrder: 0 noteSubfoldersPanelShowFullPath: false noteSubfoldersPanelShowRootFolderName: false noteSubfoldersPanelSort: 0 notesPanelOrder: 0 notesPanelSort: 1 notesPath: ../../../Nextcloud/Notes notifyAllExternalModifications: false ownCloud/password: <hidden> ownCloud/serverUrl: https://my.server.de:8443 ownCloud/supportEnabled: true ownCloud/todoCalendarBackend: 3 ownCloud/todoCalendarCalDAVPassword: <hidden> ownCloud/todoCalendarCalDAVServerUrl: empty ownCloud/todoCalendarCalDAVUsername: empty ownCloud/todoCalendarEnabledList: empty ownCloud/todoCalendarEnabledUrlList: empty ownCloud/todoCalendarUrlList: empty ownCloud/userName: andreas previousWorkspace: 18103ce0-5a25-46e4-94dd-d28f6c17be65 recentNoteFolders: C:/Users/my_username/Downloads/QOwnNotes/Data/../../../Documents/QownNotes, C:/Users/my_username/Downloads/QOwnNotes/Data/D:/Daten/MacQownNotes restoreCursorPosition: true savedSearches/noteFolder-1: graylog2 Cheatseet, Bash Cheatsheet, unattended upgrade, SMB Cheatsheet, Openssl Cheatsheet, ssh CheatSheet, Icinga 2 Director, Git Cheat Sheet, Perl Cheatsheet, jira, Apache Reverse Proxy, Graphite - Carbon, editor, php pecl, Docker, mysq, insserv, mod_rewrite, PHP - FPM, Node.js - Performance Settings, Microsoft SQL - MSSQL Cheat Sheet, Bash stat showMenuBar: true showStatusBar: true skipVersion: 17.05.1 tagWasAddedToNote: true tagsPanelHideSearch: false tagsPanelOrder: 0 tagsPanelSort: 0 toolbar/1/items: action_New_note, action_Find_note, action_Remove_note, action_Open_note_in_external_editor, , action_Back_in_note_history, action_Forward_in_note_history, , action_Find_text_in_note, actionReplace_in_current_note, , actionShow_versions, actionShow_trash, actionShare_note, , actionOpen_List toolbar/1/name: mainToolBar toolbar/1/title: Hauptsymbolleiste toolbar/2/items: actionFormat_text_bold, actionFormat_text_italic, actionStrike_out_text, actionInsert_code_block, actionInsert_block_quote toolbar/2/name: formattingToolbar toolbar/2/title: Formatierungs-Werkzeugleiste toolbar/3/items: actionInsert_Link_to_note, actionInsert_image, actionInsert_current_time toolbar/3/name: insertingToolbar toolbar/3/title: Einfügen-Werkzeugleiste toolbar/4/items: action_Encrypt_note, actionEdit_encrypted_note, actionDecrypt_note toolbar/4/name: encryptionToolbar toolbar/4/title: Werkzeugleiste Verschlüsselung toolbar/5/items: actionWorkspaceComboBox, actionStore_as_new_workspace, actionRemove_current_workspace, actionRename_current_workspace, actionSwitch_to_previous_workspace, actionUnlock_panels, , actionToggle_distraction_free_mode, action_Increase_note_text_size, action_Decrease_note_text_size, action_Reset_note_text_size toolbar/5/name: windowToolbar toolbar/5/title: Fenster-Werkzeugleiste toolbar/6/items: action_Quit toolbar/6/name: quitToolbar toolbar/6/title: Beenden - Symbolleiste toolbar/size: 6 useUNIXNewline: false workspace-18103ce0-5a25-46e4-94dd-d28f6c17be65/name: Vollständig workspace-18103ce0-5a25-46e4-94dd-d28f6c17be65/noteSubFolderDockWidgetVisible: true workspace-18103ce0-5a25-46e4-94dd-d28f6c17be65/windowState: <binary data> workspace-b76f2e69-e678-4357-a908-306795682df0/name: Minimal workspace-b76f2e69-e678-4357-a908-306795682df0/noteSubFolderDockWidgetVisible: true workspace-b76f2e69-e678-4357-a908-306795682df0/windowState: <binary data> workspaces: 18103ce0-5a25-46e4-94dd-d28f6c17be65, b76f2e69-e678-4357-a908-306795682df0

System environment

ALLUSERSPROFILE: C:\ProgramData APPDATA: C:\Users\my_username\AppData\Roaming CommonProgramFiles: C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files CommonProgramFiles(x86): C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files CommonProgramW6432: C:\Program Files\Common Files COMPUTERNAME: MAC-BAUER-P1 ComSpec: C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe destination: C:\Users\my_username\Downloads\QOwnNotes EmpirumServer: MHK-PWM-S1.mhknet.de FPS_BROWSER_APP_PROFILE_STRING: Internet Explorer FPS_BROWSER_USER_PROFILE_STRING: Default GDT-SERVER: CARATAPP01 HOMEDRIVE: C: HOMEPATH: \Users\my_username INHOUSE: CARAT LOCALAPPDATA: C:\Users\my_username\AppData\Local LOGONSERVER: \\C-DC-S1 NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS: 8 OS: Windows_NT Path: C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath;C:\Python27\;C:\Python27\Scripts;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Empirum;C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\PhysX\Common;C:\Program Files (x86)\Brackets\command;C:\Program Files\Git\cmd;C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin;C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin;C:\Program Files\nodejs\;C:\Program Files (x86)\PuTTY\;C:\Program Files\TortoiseGit\bin PATHEXT: .COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.MSC portable: --portable PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE: x86 PROCESSOR_ARCHITEW6432: AMD64 PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER: Intel64 Family 6 Model 94 Stepping 3, GenuineIntel PROCESSOR_LEVEL: 6 PROCESSOR_REVISION: 5e03 ProgramData: C:\ProgramData ProgramFiles: C:\Program Files (x86) ProgramFiles(x86): C:\Program Files (x86) ProgramW6432: C:\Program Files PROMPT: $P$G PSModulePath: C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules;C:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules PUBLIC: C:\Users\Public qownnotesCommand: C:\Users\my_username\Downloads\QOwnNotes\QOwnNotes.exe --after-update C:\Users\my_username\AppData\Local\Temp\QOwnNotes-P11044-updater.bat --portable SESSIONNAME: Console source: C:\Users\my_username\AppData\Local\Temp\QOwnNotes-P11044.zip SystemDrive: C: SystemRoot: C:\Windows TEMP: C:\Users\my_username\AppData\Local\Temp TMP: C:\Users\my_username\AppData\Local\Temp unzipCommand: C:\Users\my_username\AppData\Local\Temp\QOwnNotes-P11044-unzip.exe -o C:\Users\my_username\AppData\Local\Temp\QOwnNotes-P11044.zip -d C:\Users\my_username\Downloads\QOwnNotes unzipExecutable: C:\Users\my_username\AppData\Local\Temp\QOwnNotes-P11044-unzip.exe USERDNSDOMAIN: MYDOMAIN USERDOMAIN: MYDOMAIN USERDOMAIN_ROAMINGPROFILE: MYPROFILE USERNAME: MyUsername USERPROFILE: C:\Users\my_username VBOX_MSI_INSTALL_PATH: C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\ windir: C:\Windows

[pbek]

Can you please send a screenshot of the note preview?

[pbek]

For me the links in the preview are orange in dark mode...

[noudAndi]

Hi, the links in the markup text are orange. They are all working fine!

I'm talking only about the links, which are for example in the Update Window or in the configuration.

Here is another example:

[pbek]

Your operating system decides the color of those links. It seems that your OS isn't "dark-mode enabled". I'll see if I can do something about that.

[noudAndi]

OK, thanks a lot!

[pbek]

17.06.0

• more styling for links and <kbd> tags in various labels and text-browsers was now done to fix problems with operating systems that don't set default colors fitting to be used in dark mode

It was a big pain to achieve this. :sweat: Please let me know if you see any more links with too dark color.

[pbek]

There now is a new release, could you please test it and report if it works for you?

[noudAndi]

Works like a charm!! 🏆

Thanks again for your efforts!

[pbek]

Thank you for testing!

[EvEvans]

This issue seems only partly resolved. Links appear orange on some pages: and

But links appear blue on others: and

[pbek]

Thank you for the feedback. Mine have an other color, seems like those colors are decided by the operating system / desktop environment. I will take a look at those... Did you find any more, @Ev-Evans?

[EvEvans]

I just went through all screens I could find. Other than the two already mentioned I found one more location: the script repository. The links in the descriptions of all different scripts are blue. All other links I encountered were orange.

Thanks for your work!

[pbek]

I also fixed the colors in the script repository...

17.11.1

• fixed a lot of link colors in the user interface in dark mode for desktop environments that are forcing a to dark link color

[pbek]

There now is a new release, could you please test it and report if it works for you?