Trying to get Kate window to use global theme?

[Gary1]

I use Breath Light global theme and Breeze Light under Colors. When I change colors, I can see those changes in the windows around each application. That is, except for Kate, which appears to be on Oxygen Cold having a title of white text on a blue background, regardless of which window colors I select, even a very dark one.

Can I change Kate to use the global theme?

I’m pretty sure that Kate was not blue before I tried selecting other themes and colors because it stands out as unusual to me now.

Thank you.

EDIT:

I stumbled upon a way to get it which was to right click on the title, select more actions → configure special window settings. And then add a configuration by selecting it (here, titlebar color scheme) and the options are to force it to a theme. And that worked. Not sure it is the best way or why it must be added and forced.

[soundofthunder]

Did you logout and back in, or reboot, after selecting the global theme?

[Gary1]

Thanks. Yes, I did. A couple times. All other applications (the few I use) appear to follow the global, except for Kden live which is darker.

[soundofthunder]

I haven’t noticed any problem here.

The workaround you mentioned (via Kate itself) will certainly solve it, but it should really follow the global theme selection (any settings via Kate ideally would be set at their “defaults”).

To me, this seems like a KDE issue.
Perhaps someone there might have a better clue. Maybe there’s already a bug report somewhere.

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I suggest leaving this topic open for a while longer in case others have anything substantial to add.

Regards.

[Ben]

I’d say the problem is that OP set a theme IN KATE and forgot… that overrides the system theme…

No mention was made of the ‘acid test’ trying it out with a new user… I’d put my money on it working fine there.

@Gary1

I stumbled upon a way to get it which was to right click on the title, select more actions → configure special window settings

Haha yes, now you’re going to kick yourself - the answer is stupidly simple, but something I didn’t discover until I’d used KDE Plasma for a few years…

From the menu =>

• File Edit… Settings AltS
• Window Color Scheme W

So you can set Kate to have a light theme regardless of the system theme; I have Okular following my ‘XP_Dimmed’ colour scheme like this.

It works nicely if you like a Kate (text) colour scheme which doesn’t really match too well with y our global theme… super-fine tuning

[tracyanne]

@Ben

I’d say the problem is that OP set a theme IN KATE and forgot… that overrides the system theme…

I was about to post the same thing.

My Kate is set to default, so it follows the Global Theme. But that can be changed to any other available theme.

Kate → Settings → Window Color Scheme

[Gary1]

Thanks. At first, I thought “no way, I don’t even know how to do that.” But after looking at it, I now remember that I did just as you suggest ( a couple years ago); and I selected Oxygen.