qBittorrent's 5.0.0 Dark Theme is a mess that uses too much blue but can be fixed with just a few tweaks

[Pentaphon]

A lot of people are complaining that there's just too much blue in the transfer list, especially on the dark theme, and there's an issue with buttons not having enough contrast after they are pressed.

Suggestion

1. The alternating blue/grey transfer list, trackers list, content list, etc shouldn't have blue at all and should look more like the alternating colors on the filters sidebar where it alternates between dark grey and light grey. Only the selected entries should be blue. Please make all the lists consistent with the filters sidebar, which you can see below. Looks much better with no blue.

<---horrible, ugly blue/grey alternating colors in the main lists
<--- visually pleasing dark and light grey alternating colors in the filters sidebar

2. General, Tracker, Peers, etc buttons need to have improved contrast to show which button corresponds to the active pane. Here, you can hardly see that the General button is the one that should look very different, contrast-wise because it is the active pane. When you first press the button, it changes enough to look different but when you click another torrent, it loses the change and they all appear the same.

Anything else people would like to suggest? These are pretty easy tweaks that can be done in 1 update.

[maboroshin]

1. Yes. Transfer listings should be light gray and dark gray. Blue is confusing.
2. Yes. A selection color is required. A slightly lighter background color, or a yellowish mixture (Color as electricity glows).

My personal theory on color assignment: Color theme basics

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• There was a previous issue on this topic. (Search for “blue” in this issue) Qbittorrent new theme reverses colors ? #18078 (comment)
• Slightly related issue: Improve colors for new icons #21433

[xavier2k6]

@Pentaphon

Point (1) above switch off "Use alternating row colors"
Point (2) - needs to be looked in to further, however Qt support for dark mode keeps changing & may actually differ too between Windows 10/11.

[dante3732]

How to disable dark mode in qbittorent? It looks too bad right now.

[HanabishiRecca]

How to disable dark mode in qbittorent?

#21421 (comment)

[Aesthermortis]

dracula theme is better

[Pentaphon]

Point (1) above switch off "Use alternating row colors

I want alternating row colors, though. I just don't want it them to be blue at all. They should be light grey and dark grey.

It does get rid of the blue as a workaround, but ruins the effect of having alternating colors by default.

[xavier2k6]

Point (1) above switch off "Use alternating row colors

I want alternating row colors, though. I just don't want it them to be blue at all. They should he light grey and dark grey.

Currently this is set by Qt with their dark mode support.......it's still in a state of flux on their end.