Matthew Brush

@thdoan yes, for a separate rendering engine. It would probably be less difficult to change Scintilla to mimic closer GTK+'s normal font rendering (ex. matching hinting, aliasing, widths, etc). For...

I think this is a reasonable enhancement request that could be mostly implemented without too much work. The three areas as I see it are: * GTK theme: You can...

> it is unlikely to be accepted if it makes the application override the theme. It doesn't really _override_ the GTK+ theme, it just [requests the "dark" variant](https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/3.2/GtkSettings.html#GtkSettings--gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme) of the...

> Or "Dark mode" plugin, could even extend @b4n's. It would probably be not much different amount of work exposing Geany internals for inverting the Scintilla colour scheme and providing...

@suntong no idea about the GTK+ theme issue but for Geany/Scintilla theme, do you have `Preferences->Editor->Display->Invert syntax highlighting colors` ticked?

> But a colour scheme contains no information that its light or dark so even if Geany can determine from the GTK theme that it is dark, it can't select...