Bug 2074945

Summary:	GNOME Evolution does not honor Dark Style under Fedora 36 beta
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	antonraves
Component:	evolution	Assignee:	Milan Crha <mcrha>
Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	36	CC:	caillon+fedoraproject, lucilanga, mcrha, rstrode, sandmann
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Last Closed:	2022-04-13 12:54:47 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description antonraves 2022-04-13 11:04:21 UTC

Description of problem:

The GNOME 42 Evolution mail application does not honor Dark Style under Fedora 36 beta

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How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start the "Settings" application
2. In the left column click on "Appearance"
3. Select the "Dark" Style

Actual results:
"Bright lights!"

Expected results:
A GNOME 42 Evolution mail application in Dark Style mode and not the bright one currently there! 

Additional info:

Comment 1 Milan Crha 2022-04-13 12:54:47 UTC

Thanks for a bug report. The GNOME "dark style" is a very new thing and it doesn't seem to be compatible with the gtk3 applications, which the Evolution is (I believe the dark style works only for the gtk4 applications). If you want the gtk3 applications to be in the dark theme, use the dark gtk3 theme as well. You can do that when you install gnome-tweaks, then in the Appearance->Legacy Applications switch the theme to Adwaita-dark. Why the gtk3 is called Legacy I do not know.

You might possibly ask the Settings maintainers to make this gtk3 theme change, at least for well known themes, but I guess they had a (good) reason to not do it immediately.

Comment 2 antonraves 2022-04-13 13:07:23 UTC

Many thanks for your response on the bug report, the Legacy Applications switch inside GNOME Tweaks is one easily overlooked! What is protocol here, this being my first bug report here, do we close it and leave it here for posterity purposes, then for now I can work around the gtk3 limitation with the tip you mentioned!

Comment 3 Milan Crha 2022-04-13 14:03:45 UTC

Correct, I already closed this, you do not need to do anything :) Anybody can still reach this bug and see the way to make this work, if needed (supposing they use the right search terms).

Comment 4 Milan Crha 2022-05-12 15:53:09 UTC

It turned out I've been wrong. The upstream bug [1] contains references to resources how to do it. Not that I like it, but it's the way it had been made. This is goign to be fixed with 3.44.2+.

[1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/issues/1898