After I figured out how to activate a personal theme in XnViewMP (Old Dark) as mentioned in topic 21219 a year ago, I started investigating that file style_sheet.qss in folder C:\Program Files\XnViewMP\UI\.
I wasn't very happy with the Dark theme, too little contrast, and the Black theme I found, well, too black
So I went through the whole file, changing mainly color properties to see where the entries were used.
What I fixed (I think):
Tabs below panels (tab shape="1") had improper settings.
Text of the panel titles were not vertically centered.
White horizontal line next to tabs below panels (tab shape="1").
Blue line above tabs in Settings windows like Formats, Read.
There were no settings for QTableView, used in Settings, File list and Custom filter.
QListView, item, hover, changed the color, in Settings the left subjects list was hardly readable.
QComboBox, item with hover focus turned blue.
Made screens with tabs in Settings (like Formats, Read) lighter, checkboxes were hardly visible.
Changed the progress bar, it was colored, the percentage lacking left padding, made the progress bar thinner.
Checkboxes in titles of groupboxes were Windows blue (like in Settings, Catalog.
The bars in Category sets panel and Batch convert, Actions tab were light blue.
The whole journey should result in a theme that was more my taste, with "10 shades of gray", not too dark and making every detail of the GUI clearly visible.
This whole journey resulted in a file that has grown from 29 KB to 45 KB because of comments.
So I now have a file were every setting is documented as good as I could do that without the source code.
I could publish this file here, but I need to know if there is enough interest, because I made all my comments in Dutch, so I would need to translate it in English, which is OK but takes time.
Regards, Han
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