Themes for Calibre

[Library2016]

Is there a dark theme for Calibre? Additionally, how do you hide the icons on the main toolbar, or the main toolbar itself, in Calibre?

[theducks]

Customize the toolbar
Preferences: Toolbar


WARNING
Some features are only accessible from icons (no default hot keys)

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Library2016

Is there a dark theme for Calibre? Additionally, how do you hide the icons on the main toolbar, or the main toolbar itself, in Calibre?

I believe there are ways to use themes for some versions of Linux - search the Calibre forum for 'theme'

To get rid of the icons: in Preferences->Look and Feel set the icon size to none. You can also add most features to the book list context menu - my preferred way to drive is: kb shortcuts (first), context menu, icon-less tool bar, Favourites PI (last).

I suggest you spend some time looking through the Preferences

BR

[Purple Lady]

If you have a theme created in windows, you can get Calibre to use your colors by choosing System default for the User interface style under Look and Feel in Preferences.

[snafu21]

In Linux (Ubuntu) it automatically takes on the theme of the OS. I have a dark theme installed and it looks like below

[chuneau]

Originally Posted by snafu21

In Linux (Ubuntu) it automatically takes on the theme of the OS. I have a dark theme installed and it looks like below

I use a GTK theme (Ambiance-backout-graphite) with Unity Tweak tool and all my software are dark, except calibre.

What theme, and kind of theme (Unity, GTK ...) do you use ?

[snafu21]

Originally Posted by chuneau

I use a GTK theme (Ambiance-backout-graphite) with Unity Tweak tool and all my software are dark, except calibre.

What theme, and kind of theme (Unity, GTK ...) do you use ?

I've upgraded to a new SSD since that post so I'm not 100% what theme that was but it was probably Ambiance also.

I'm running Ubuntu 15.10 and using the Unity Tweak Tool and get themes from Noobslab ( http://www.noobslab.com/2015/05/ambi...ors-theme.html ). That's what I have installed presently and it's changed to match the system.

[snafu21]

Originally Posted by chuneau

I use a GTK theme (Ambiance-backout-graphite) with Unity Tweak tool and all my software are dark, except calibre.

What theme, and kind of theme (Unity, GTK ...) do you use ?

I've just upgraded from 2.33 to 2.52 and lost theme in Calibre also.

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by snafu21

I've just upgraded from 2.33 to 2.52 and lost theme in Calibre also.

That is because of Qt version mismatches. calibre comes with its own copy of Qt and your system themes will only work if they were compiled against a matching version of Qt. Newer versions of calibre use Qt 5.1. You can make it work by compiling calibre from source with the same version of Qt as is on your system, but that is a fairly difficult task.

[snafu21]

I wouldn't even know where to begin. I'll just be content with the native theme.

[eschwartz]

It's actually not so difficult. Getting the dependencies right can sometimes be a pain, but the Ubuntu developers have probably done that already.

sudo apt-get build-dep calibre

should install all the packages needed to build whichever version of calibre is in the repositories (we will assume you are running a recent Ubuntu release and thus the repo version is at least newer than 1.48.0).

Also install Git, for downloading the source code.


Then checkout and build the source code:

git clone git://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre
cd calibre
python2 setup.py bootstrap
sudo python2 setup.py install