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slowsmile · 07-14-2018, 08:36 PM

@BeckyEBook...Remember that the QDarkStyleSheet qss is only for use within python application code that uses Qt. So, in other words , the qss stylsheet and resources must be properly imported into the application code in order to work properly -- see this link. The easiest way to get this python code is just to download and install the QDarkStyle python module into your python installation from the Python Index using pip as shown here. This also means that you would have to rebuild and recompile Sigil with the Qdarkstyle module to incorporate all of it properly into Sigil.

This QDarkStyleStylesheet cannot therefore be completely and properly added manually to an existing already-built application like Sigil. This also means that adding all the icons, as you have suggested, will have no effect on Sigil's existing icons at all when you manually add and use the qss file. You can check this easily by comparing the icons on your QDarkStyleSheet Sigil version with the icons used in normal Sigil without the stylesheet. There will be no difference between them.

So copying all the QDarkStyleSheet icons into the Sigil Preferences directory, as you recommend, will not change any icons when you incorporate this stylesheet into Sigil. And so doing that will have no effect and would be a waste of time. Just copying the stylesheet code and following the instructions above in the first post is all you have to do to install it on your Sigil app. It's not perfect but it's really the simplest way to do it for now. DiapDealer, in his post above, has more or less said the same thing as I have concerning how to manually load the qss stylesheet and has also described what's coming in a future Sigil release.

07-14-2018, 08:36 PM	#13
slowsmile Witchman Posts: 628 Karma: 788808 Join Date: May 2013 Location: Philippines Device: Android S5	@BeckyEBook...Remember that the QDarkStyleSheet qss is only for use within python application code that uses Qt. So, in other words , the qss stylsheet and resources must be properly imported into the application code in order to work properly -- see this link. The easiest way to get this python code is just to download and install the QDarkStyle python module into your python installation from the Python Index using pip as shown here. This also means that you would have to rebuild and recompile Sigil with the Qdarkstyle module to incorporate all of it properly into Sigil. This QDarkStyleStylesheet cannot therefore be completely and properly added manually to an existing already-built application like Sigil. This also means that adding all the icons, as you have suggested, will have no effect on Sigil's existing icons at all when you manually add and use the qss file. You can check this easily by comparing the icons on your QDarkStyleSheet Sigil version with the icons used in normal Sigil without the stylesheet. There will be no difference between them. So copying all the QDarkStyleSheet icons into the Sigil Preferences directory, as you recommend, will not change any icons when you incorporate this stylesheet into Sigil. And so doing that will have no effect and would be a waste of time. Just copying the stylesheet code and following the instructions above in the first post is all you have to do to install it on your Sigil app. It's not perfect but it's really the simplest way to do it for now. DiapDealer, in his post above, has more or less said the same thing as I have concerning how to manually load the qss stylesheet and has also described what's coming in a future Sigil release. Last edited by slowsmile; 07-14-2018 at 11:35 PM.