ferdium
Ferdium no longer respects switching to dark mode for all services
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Ferdium Version
6.4.1
What Operating System are you using?
Ubuntu
Operating System Version
22.04
What arch are you using?
x64
Last Known Working Ferdium version
6.2.1?
Expected Behavior
When the OS switches to dark mode, Ferdium and all its services will switch to dark mode as well.
Actual Behavior
Ferdium side bar switches to dark mode but services do not. They only switch upon reloading all of Ferdium (or closing out and reopening).
Steps to reproduce
- Open Ferdium.
- Force your OS to switch between light and dark mode.
- Notice that Ferdium services do not switch to dark mode.
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Same issue, I tried with WhatsApp and Telegram and it didn't work, I don't know if other services do.
Os: nixos Ferdium: 6.4.1
I reported a similar problem in #448 over a year ago and apparently Electron is to blame.
None of the services I use respond to enabling dark mode and I'm yet to see it function in the first place. This is a known issue.
@DavidDJPearl And your OS is?
On Kubuntu it does work provided dark mode is enabled system-wide like for example the theme "Breeze Dark". If you don't use that I guess you're on your own because bugs reports related to Linux remain mainly unattended for AFAICT.
@meiphoo7-Mae,
Hi and my apologies for not providing any specifics. I am running 6.6.1-nightly.14 on Windows 11 version 23H2, build 22631.2792, with Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.22681.1000.0. Let me know if there is any other info that might help.
@DavidDJPearl I'm not a developer so I can't help with this. Because you're a Windows user while this issue is about Linux, which is mentioned in the opening post, it is probably better when you open a new issue. This has also the added benefit that you can provide details in the issue template.
From what I can see now the issue has been solved, at least for the services I use, we may consider closing this.
From what I can see now the issue has been solved, at least for the services I use, we may consider closing this.
May I know which services you use in Ferdium?
I decided to try Ferdium again today to check dark mode behavior. Unfortunately Gmail still doesn't go dark at all.
I even browsed and tried several Dark Gmail stylesheets that I found. Pasting the CSS into user.css or darkmode.css and reloading Ferdium afterwards did nothing, absolutely zero changes were applied to the page.
I guess Universal Dark Mode is just destined to be broken and inconsistent.
same problem for Gmail for me.
Version: 7.0.0 Server: No Server Electron: 33.2.0 Chrome: 130.0.6723.118 Node.js: 20.18.0 Platform: Windows 10 Arch: x64 Build date: Sun Nov 10 2024 09:23:00 GMT+0700 (Western Indonesia Time) Git SHA: e6249427 Git branch: release
I've been having this problem too for a while now with whatsapp. After every restart I had to disable and re-enable dark mode for it to apply. During my search just now I came across this comment that suggests using the in-app darkmode setting. I disabled dark mode for whatsapp in ferdium and then turned darkmode on in whatsapp itself. This seems to persist after a restart of ferdium.
Google Mail & Calendar work with Ferdium here - but I've set the native option to use dark mode outside of Ferdium...
