Bug 169942 - [SIDEBAR][APPEARANCE] Sidebar Style panel background should follow document background
Summary: [SIDEBAR][APPEARANCE] Sidebar Style panel background should follow document b...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 137705
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
25.8.3.2 release
Hardware: All All
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Blocks: Sidebar-Styles Sidebar-UI-UX
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Reported: 2025-12-11 13:29 UTC by Olivier Hallot
Modified: 2025-12-12 08:25 UTC (History)
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image shows document in white background and sidebar in dark background (195.25 KB, image/png)
2025-12-11 13:29 UTC, Olivier Hallot
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Description Olivier Hallot 2025-12-11 13:29:54 UTC
Created attachment 204582 [details]
image shows document in white background and sidebar in dark background

When choosing document background as "white" in the appearance settings, the sidebar background should follow the appearance choice and display styles with white background.

The image attached shows when the document background is white and the sidebar is not and styles are previewd. It turns visualization quite hard.

Version: 25.8.2.2 (X86_64)
Build ID: d401f2107ccab8f924a8e2df40f573aab7605b6f
CPU threads: 12; OS: Linux 6.17; UI render: default; VCL: kf5 (cairo+wayland)
Locale: en-US (pt_BR.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 1 V Stuart Foote 2025-12-11 14:50:04 UTC
This would kind of defeat the purpose of Dark mode appearance theming.

Setting the document canvas white by default (for a WYSIWYG "feel") the UI controls are under appearance theme coloring. 

I don't find it inconsistent, and folks seeking reduced glare in their UI by selecting Dark appearance theming would likely object to the SB Styles deck following the document canvas. Just too much glare.

And if we were to move on this, then I would insist the Tools -> Options -> Appearance 'Use white document background' selection should also control the SB Styles deck rendering.
Comment 2 Olivier Hallot 2025-12-11 15:31:33 UTC
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #1)
(snip)
> And if we were to move on this, then I would insist the Tools -> Options ->
> Appearance 'Use white document background' selection should also control the
> SB Styles deck rendering.

An additional checkbox "Use white background in sidebar style preview mode" will be just fine (imho).
Comment 3 Heiko Tietze 2025-12-12 08:25:55 UTC
This has been reported a couple of times.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 137705 ***