[Problem] Some stylesheets are not coherent in code and look and are outdated.

[MisterMakerNL]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

Problem description

Freecad now has

1. "Dark"
2. "Darker"
3. "Dark modern"
4. "Dark behave"
5. "Dark contrast"
6. "ProDark"
7. "Light"
8. "Light modern"

8 Stylesheets, but 3 of them are the same and only have different colors.
2 of the 8 are slightly different from the 3, these are the modern version. Those are there to try and make a more modern style. But they have the same code only the tabs and buttons style are different.
Basically the 5 are similar.
Then we have the 3 others:
Which are:

1. "Dark behave"
2. "Dark contrast"
3. "ProDark"
   They all have different code style and look very different.
   They are also not up-to-date the custom color setting and the overlay system have not been checked and there are very minor bugs around.
   Example tiny bugs:
   These buttons in Prodark
   
   No highlight in the pull-down:
   
   Overlay in Dark behave same with contrast.
   
   All the overlay icons aren't good too.
   So not really unusable but also not great.

Full version info

NA

Subproject(s) affected?

None

Anything else?

#11982

Code of Conduct

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[RohanMishra315]

Hey @Roy-043 @MisterMakerNL I would love to look into this ?

[Syres916]

See #12039

[chennes]

I'm sure all of the stylesheets have some bugs in them, and just like every other piece of code, there are parts that are more actively maintained than others. Let's be careful to separate technical problems (text cut off, buttons the wrong size, etc.) with aesthetic considerations (e.g. "looks outdated"). We don't blindly remove sections of code that no one is working on unless there is a good reason for it, so a discussion about winnowing the number of themes provided by default is its own Issue and should be discussed separately of technical or aesthetic considerations of the themes themselves.

[MisterMakerNL]

@chennes It's not about personal choice on looks. More about providing a more polished/uniformly look and keeping it like that over time.
It's also not to withheld options, they definitely should be placed in the addon browser if people are using them.
I just hope there will be someone to maintain them then.

I said it was outdated in looks because of the missing overlay stylesheets mostly.

I do think I should undo behave dark since someone stepped up to maintain it.

[MisterMakerNL]

I been thinking about this. My actual plan is to make 3 stylesheets.

1. Will be the most basic version for linux. This is going to be just a stylesheet without any visual additions except some UI fixes, like the custom selection color. It will still follow the Linux stylesheet, so you hardly will see any difference between how it now is.
2. Will be the same but for windows, although I want to remove the windows specific task window stuff, it should look exactly like how it looks in Linux. If you are using light mode in Linux.
3. Will be nr 2 but dark.

This would solve the uniformity between Linux and windows.
It would also make it possible to slowly modernize the look, ease users into changes instead of just doing everything.
I hope mac can use these stylesheets too.
I hope we can detect if windows users are using dark style in windows, then we should just automatically switch to dark.
Linux should just be the new default.

Edit-----
There is an issue, if a function like hoover on some element isn't being used right now, it will turn empty
Example if you hoover over an radial button you get this:

Default has no hoover.
So it is missing info here.
For Linux this could be an issue since if I add it in the stylesheet it won't use the OS style anymore.
So my solution now will be to not add functions.

[maxwxyz]

To add from the FreeCAD Day 2024 Complaint Session:
When you change the theme it should change everything in contrast with that theme. If you use a light theme then you need to change other colours to make it work.
Discussion:
When using a light theme, in the sketcher I always have to change, for example, the line color because it’s white, it’s not visible. So it would be nice to have a like a style-aware theme, if you change it, change it to something light, it is actually visible, so you don’t have to mess around with additional color settings.
When you change the theme it should also change everything that should be in contrast with that theme to actually be in contrast and legible.
Also when I just changing the background (for example to white) the rest everything is fine and then nothing else is visible.
If you use a light theme then you need to change the color of many things to make it work.

[MisterMakerNL]

I hope we fix the line color issue being hardcoded into the Freecad file with the new Material overhaul!!! Since I think the sketch line color was similar to adding a part color.

[furgo16]

Given the direction the Start page is already taking (choice of 3 themes: Classic, Dark, Light), and given that the 1.0 release is shaping up, what are the blockers in this discussion?

[MisterMakerNL]

I made a dark style that is the same as the no-stylesheet light-style:
#13772
This way we can have 3 settings:
Auto (follow system)/dark/light

[Reqrefusion]

I am one of those who think this problem should be solved. The steps should be like this:

• Themes that are not actively maintained should definitely be removed. This seems like the thing to do anyway.

• For the themes being maintained, only one of them should have dark and light in their names. I think this solves most of the confusion. And it would be good to change bad names too. For example:
  Dark Behave-Blue Night @Syres916
  It is a much more elegant and beautiful-sounding name. Of course, this is just a suggestion, better names can be found.