Weird dark mode on Plasma

[thegrasshopper104]

Describe the bug
The results are very hard to see, the icons and the headerbar are oversized.

Expected behavior
Support dark mode or just use the Elementary style
Screenshots

• OS: openSUSE Tumbleweed
• Desktop: KDE Plasma 6.2.2
• Version 0.5.4-2.24

[priit123]

It doesn't like dark mode.
You can force light theme on it by editing /usr/share/applications/com.github.parnold-x.nasc.desktop
Add "env GTK_THEME=Adwaita:light" to "Exec=" line.

Basically:
Open .desktop file with nano
sudo nano /usr/share/applications/com.github.parnold-x.nasc.desktop

Replace Exec= line with this.
Exec=env GTK_THEME=Adwaita:light com.github.parnold-x.nasc

[undecided]

Just to say, I've been using this for over a year and loving it - but yeah, on Linux Mint, unfortunately same problem.

I made the following tweaks to force it to work:

src/InputView.vala line 321, replace

        if (NascSettings.get_instance ().dark_mode) {
            this.buffer.style_scheme = style_scheme_manager.get_scheme ("nasc_dark");
        } else {
            this.buffer.style_scheme = style_scheme_manager.get_scheme ("nasc");
        }

with

        this.buffer.style_scheme = style_scheme_manager.get_scheme ("nasc_dark");

Then, src/NascSettings.vala line 56, replace

dark_mode = gtk_settings.gtk_application_prefer_dark_theme

... with:

        dark_mode = true;

I presumed it was something weird to do with my setup (maybe gtk being loaded via flatpak or something) but I couldn't find any other way to set those variables correctly, and this did the job for me.

Otherwise it's a very useful app - I have it bound to a hotkey on my keyboard.

[parnoldx]

Happy to here this is useful for you. I am not on elementary anymore and not much time and motivation to code on it. eos did some dark mode stuff more like a recommendation. But since it isn't anymore available on the eos store I am happy to merge PRs that improve the behavior on other Desktop Environments.