Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems like Label Colors don't really work with Themes well.
So XnViewMP has light and dark themes. That's great. It will also let you select foreground and background colors for labels based on file format. Also great.
But when you switch themes, the background color for the UI changes, obviously. And the colors defined in Label Colors just don't.
Which means if you switch themes, as you might for daytime or nighttime, your label colors look like trash.
Is there a way to set a transparent background color, or otherwise having the label colors adapt based on theme? Or define a 2nd set of colors per theme in the ini file or something?
If not, it would seem Label Colors are just not really compatible with switching themes, if you want things to look decent. Manually and individually changing the colors for 20 file formats any time you switch themes is not practical.
The user seems to be faced with a choice of either not using label colors, or never switching themes. Is there something I'm missing here?
Thanks...
Label colors with Themes
Re: Label colors with Themes
Well, both.
If you make the background color of labels match Light Theme, it doesn't match when you switch to Dark Theme.
If you make the background color of labels match Dark Theme, it doesn't match when you switch to Light Theme.
Since changing the colors of all the items has to be done manually, and it takes so long with many items, the user ends up either disabling this feature, or not switching themes.
If you make the background color of labels match Light Theme, it doesn't match when you switch to Dark Theme.
If you make the background color of labels match Dark Theme, it doesn't match when you switch to Light Theme.
Since changing the colors of all the items has to be done manually, and it takes so long with many items, the user ends up either disabling this feature, or not switching themes.
Re: Label colors with Themes
If you wanted to improve this, I can think of two ways.
1. Each color setting has separate color for each theme. But there are three themes plus custom, so maybe not a great idea.
Or
2. Color settings are tied to the theme active when you set them. Load dark theme, set colors as you like. Load light theme, set colors as you like. When you switch back to dark theme, it has the colors you set with dark theme, etc. This would be nice if it worked with custom themes too.
There might need to be an option to just use one set of colors, to preserve existing behavior for people that like it.
I foolishly assumed XnViewMP actually did #2 already until I played with it a bit. It seemed an obvious thing so that’s why I thought I might be misunderstanding something, or there was an option I missed somewhere.
1. Each color setting has separate color for each theme. But there are three themes plus custom, so maybe not a great idea.
Or
2. Color settings are tied to the theme active when you set them. Load dark theme, set colors as you like. Load light theme, set colors as you like. When you switch back to dark theme, it has the colors you set with dark theme, etc. This would be nice if it worked with custom themes too.
There might need to be an option to just use one set of colors, to preserve existing behavior for people that like it.
I foolishly assumed XnViewMP actually did #2 already until I played with it a bit. It seemed an obvious thing so that’s why I thought I might be misunderstanding something, or there was an option I missed somewhere.
Re: Label colors with Themes
adding 'Presets' functionality to 'Label colors' section will help
though I'm not a big fan of colored labels in general, I would prefer an option to use format color in cell background:
Settings - thumbnails - appearance - improve settings
though I'm not a big fan of colored labels in general, I would prefer an option to use format color in cell background:
Settings - thumbnails - appearance - improve settings