papirus-claws-mail-theme

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hello

I use claw mail version 3.17.3 on windows 10 LTSC 1809, but claw mail is all white. I seek a dark theme and yours is, but can you make a version for windows or at least tell me how can get it to work for windows ?

regards

The project provides the icon themes only. It doesn't help you to change a window color.

how do they get the dark theme here ?

By installing Arc-Dark GTK theme, but I don't sure that you can installing the theme on Windows.

You can install this on Windows but it obviously requires some effort as you have to install the GTK theme. Here's the gist of what I did:

• Download an already built version of the theme (it's not sufficient to download the GitHub version as it's just the source). The version I obtained was from Debian https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/all/arc-theme/download
• Unpack the deb file and its inner data.tar archive using 7-Zip or similar
• Copy the contents of usr/share/themes/ to the themes folder in your Claws-Mail installation (C:\Program Files\Claws Mail\share\themes for me)
• Run Notepad as Administrator and open the GTK settings file: C:\Program Files\Claws Mail\etc\gtk-3.0\settings.ini (Claws 4 uses GTK 3, Claws 3 uses GTK 2)
• Update the gtk-theme-name property from windows71 to match the folder name of the theme you want, e.g. Arc-Dark
• Restart Claws-Mail and install icon theme as per normal

Note for some themes (e.g. Arc-Darker) you need to uncomment gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme