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Originally Posted by Sirtel
I finally updated from 6.10 to 6.19. The background color of the toolbar and the context menus is now blindingly white instead of gray, I'm guessing because of the Qt update in 6.12. This makes Calibre very hard to use for me. I can't use the dark mode either, as I can read light text on a dark background only for a short while, then my eyes get tired.
In short, is there some way or plugin to change the background color of the toolbars and menus? I searched, but it seems there isn't. Which would mean I'd have to stick to pre-6.12 versions from now on.
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Background colors are a big issue for me, and I think that's one of the reasons I have migrated to using dark style in Calibre, main one being that the Viewer follows the general color scheme - and in the viewer the dark style looks perfect to me.
When browsing the web, I tend to create usertyles for the sites I read more often, like this one for Mobileread:
@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);
@-moz-document domain("mobileread.com") {
body{background:#D9D9E0!important}
}
And for programs that allow unrestricted background customization (e.g. Xchange Editor, Vivaldi), lately I found #c5cbd5 to be a nice fit.
I remember I mentioned here something like that before, before migrating. The menu items in Calibre are always #FFFFFF (blindingly white), either using the System Default UI style or Calibre's Light Theme (which is mainly #F0F0F0).
Attached some illustrating screenshots:
Calibre UI style: system default
Calibre UI style: Calibre's light palette
Xchange:
Vivaldi:
I also change PDF backgrounds with Xchange Editor and it was interesting that i was troubleshooting a Chromium browser "Save as PDF" background issue when i saw your post.
For PDFs I use something like
#f4f4fd or #fffdf4 ("
hygge").