dark mode : scroll bar are difficult to spot

[jcelle]

Hello,
I was wondering if it was possible to modify the colors of the scroll bar (the bar you can grab with the mouse) ?
In dark mode it is very difficult to distinguish what is the bar (you can grab with the mouse) from the whole scrollbar background.
See screenshot.
Thanks for any advice.

[Dennis]

This was addressed in SlickEdit 2020 (25.0.2).  Which version of SlickEdit are you using?  And what platform?  And, if Windows, what OS color theme?

[jcelle]

Ah there has been some regression too then ...
I am using version 2021 (v26.0.0.6 64-bit Qt5) and Dark Theme.

[Dennis]

Linux, Windows, or Mac?  And when you say Dark Theme, do you mean the SlickEdit application theme or the OS theme?

[jcelle]

Hi, sorry I was too quick in my answer.
So platform is Windows 10, not in dark theme.
In Slickedit I picked some Dark theme that I changed and saved (but not the scrollbar) so now it appears as "Dark: jcelle" in Appearance/Colors/Default color profiles.

[Dennis]

There was no regression between 25.0.2 and 26.0.0.  In your example, the colors look distinct enough to me.  Do you have HDR enabled on your display?  Maybe a subtle difference in contrast settings is the difference?  In either case, you can work around this by setting the scrollbar colors in the apptheme_profiles in <config>/user.cfg.xml.  Try adding this before </options> near the end of the file. 

This change makes the scrollbar handle lighter:  (and window background colors too)

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<apptheme_profiles n="apptheme_profiles.Dark" version="1">
<window v="0x303030"/>
</apptheme_profiles>

This change makes the scrollbar background lighter (and effects a lot of other things too):

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<apptheme_profiles n="apptheme_profiles.Dark" version="1">
        <button v="0x504040"/>
</apptheme_profiles>


[Graeme]

I don't use slick dark mode but I enabled it just to see what the scrollbar looks like and on my Win 10 machine it's very hard to see the scrollbar.

[Dennis]

This can be adjusted slightly for 26.0.1.  Would you want the scrollbar handle darker or the scrollbar background lighter?

[Graeme]

vis studio dark theme looks like this - attached.  When the mouse cursor lands on the moveable scrollbar it changes to an even lighter colour.

[jcelle]

Thanks for all these replies and suggestions. I'll have a closer look tomorrow. If any change is possible in next hotfix/version I think makes sense to have the handle lighter.
All the best.

[jcelle]

So I gave a deeper look: problem is mainly because the colors are inverted : it makes sense to have the background dark and anything else light (dark background, light code for instance )
So the same must be applied everywhere: dark background and light scroller handle.

[Dennis]

We may make that change in a future version, but inverting the color roles is a bit much for 26.0.1.  I have adjusted the colors to make the scrollbar handle more visible, even on Windows where the background color is darker.

[jcelle]

And that sounds perfect to me Dennis to wait for 26.0.1.
Thanks for your reactivity.

[jcelle]

  unless mistaken, not present in 26.0.1...
Here I am expecting the bottom light part to be the scroller, which is not.

[Dennis]

I adjusted the colors.  The dark portion is still the scroll bar handle.