Description: Users expect applications to automatically follow their system setting for light | dark mode. In LibreOffice > Settings > Application Colors > Color Scheme there are two options: LibreOfficeDev LibreOfficeDev Dark Adding a third (Automatic) option which follows system setting will ensure users get the expected mdoe in LibreOffice on macOS. Steps to Reproduce: Change Light Dark mode in macOS System Settings. Actual Results: Application colors in LibreOffice won't follow that user selection. For dark mode this means, users are greeted with a glaring white sheet when opening a Text Document. This is a rather big issue for someone expected LibreOffice to open in Dark Mode. The fact that Application Colors is a very alien setting on macOS (I am not aware of any other app using that terminology or mechanism, if anything you will get themes) will make it hard for users to understand, they can actually change that setting. But why make users scratch their head, if following good defaults resolves the issue and avoids additional user interaction, forcing them to fumble with LibreOffice settings? Expected Results: LibreOffice should follow the user selection in macOS System Settings for dark | light mode. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: Version: 7.5.0.0.alpha1+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 360b5861fb46353e7a6b9f5abf13339cd719a8df CPU threads: 8; OS: Mac OS X 13.0.1; UI render: default; VCL: osx Locale: de-DE (en_DE.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded
Why only mwcOS? It should work in all OS's
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 152184 ***
I side with steve. Why not following the way, the OS vendor shows how to do it on its own platform with same or similar apps to achieve consistency platform-wide? Take TextEdit.app on macOS: how presents TextEdit.app itself on macOS in dark mode? With a white paper background or a dark/black background? TextEdit has a dark/black background, not a white paper background. Take for instance another Texteditor, a third party Texteditor, take TextMate: dark or wihite background in ddark mode? It has a dark background. Take CotEditor, another Texteditor app: also a dark theme, a dark background, when system wide dark mode is enabled. So, where is the problem, to follow, what the OS vendor, in this case Apple, shows how to to it on its own platform? To be consistent on the platform, on *each* of the OS platforms, with its unique requirements and pecularities should weigh higher than to be consistent across several platforms while ignoring the platform specific requirements and peculiarities, above all on the macOS platform, where this is a very special topic and the users also expect it, otherwise they do not use the software or only reluctantly and prefer to use software that adheres to this kind of consistency and specifications and where this is better observed.