Most of the time, I want to use a dark view of a document. For that, I'm currently using the "Dark" colour scheme. However, many persons use a specific colour for font and/or background. This make their document unreadable with the "Dark" colour scheme. For those documents, I have to browse the preferences in order to choose back a usual light colour scheme. Instead of choosing the "Dark" colour, I would like to choose a feature which just invert the colours. With only one click, I could activate or deactivate this feature. Compared to Dark colour scheme, the inverted colours could be activated most of the time while reading or redacting. This is just for laying out the document that I would deactivate the inverted colours in order to see the chosen colours (most of the time for white background on white paper). A few pdf readers offer this feature (Evince, Sumatrapdf, ...).
Beleive the 'Dark Mode' with tt. "Toggle between light and dark modes"-- .uno:ChangeTheme, is available via customize dialog and does exactly this. Control can be assigned to menu, keyboard or toolbar. As tb button or menu its icon motif is a Waxing crescent/First quarter moon - ☽ (U+263D) Please check if that UNO functions as needed.
Also, a 7.4.7 release is haplessly out of date, with minimal Dark mode support. Please move to a 25.8 install or even test nightly of master against a 26.2.0
I confirm the feature is missing in 25.2.6.2 version (most recent snap package). Version: 25.2.6.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 0b720ef5e7394b1db407719d7da75840109af140 CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 6.1; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: fr-FR (fr_FR.UTF-8); UI: fr-FR Calc: threaded
Works for me as expected on the 25.8 release. Please update. Just checked and when the 'Dark Mode' UNO control button is added to each module standard toolbar, it does in fact toggle the UI between Light and Dark modes. Tools -> Options -> Appearance should be set as follows: 'Enable application theming' -- checked enabled 'Use white document background' -- unchecked disabled (won't work otherwise). Start with LibreOffice Themes listbox selection as 'Automatic' The 'Dark Mode' UNO will follow os/DE provided color scheme for Light or Dark. Automatic is bypassed. That is the Tools -> Options -> Appearance will show Light or Dark only as UI is toggled. Reset to 'Automatic' and restart LibreOffice to get out of the Dark Mode toggle cycle. Probably should not try to also add an Appearance theme OXT extension and expect sane toggle. Just works with default os/DE provided system color scheme. @Sahil, anything more to add? Version: 25.8.1.1 (X86_64) Build ID: 54047653041915e595ad4e45cccea684809c77b5 CPU threads: 28; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (build 26100); UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US Calc: CL threaded
Is there a toggle button in toolbar that inverts the document colours without changing the application theming (keep light or dark UI) ?
(In reply to Jérôme from comment #5) > Is there a toggle button in toolbar that inverts the document colours > without changing the application theming (keep light or dark UI) ? No, just the Light or Dark of the os/DE color scheme toggling of the appearance theme--which should solve issue of comment 0. And otherwise you'd need to apply different Appearance themes (probably needing document save and LO restart to fully apply).
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #6) > (In reply to Jérôme from comment #5) > > Is there a toggle button in toolbar that inverts the document colours > > without changing the application theming (keep light or dark UI) ? > > No, just the Light or Dark of the os/DE color scheme toggling of the > appearance theme--which should solve issue of comment 0. Then the light dark scheme toggling would not solve the current issue. I would like to invert only the document colours without changing the window colours scheme, without changing the icons themes.