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Libreoffice dark theme menu bars3/29/2024 ![]() ![]() The journal rules are recorded once for all in the templates and you only type your text, just assigning the styles here and there without having to think about formatting (as it is done automatically).LibreOffice has been designed to work with different kinds of files too with only a single download. You have the same stylenames in the various templates but their appearance is different. your style names designate the role, significance or semantic value of the paragraph or word, not its appearance. This trick works with “semantic styling”, i.e. And if you take care, when you need to submit the same article to several recipients, just pasting the formatted text into a fresh document based on the adequate template will reformat everything according to the recipient rules. You can then have one template for formatting for the Times, one template for the Chicago Herald, one for the Corriere della Sera, etc. A template is a skeleton document where you store your styles and optionally initial contents. to submit papers to different journals with different author guidelines) ![]() Alas, if I can’t change it, I’ll just have to switch to Gnome’s light theme when working in Writer. I spend a lot of time in Writer so this is professionally important for me. So, dark theme in the desktop environment + light theme in Writer. Strangely, I find an overall dark theme (in the desktop) is easier on the eyes (both aesthetically and in reducing eye strain), but I need my word processor to be in a lighter theme (like it happened before in ubuntu 20.04) to be productive and reduce eye strain. This is likely associated with the fact that both my laptops have small 1366x768 12,5’’ displays with dull colors, but I can work fine with light-colored toolbars/menus. My eyesight isn’t terrible, but it’s also not the best, and I take a fraction of a second more each time I need to click something in those bars (even simple things like changing spacing between lines or saving a documents, for which I have some muscle memory). I find it much more difficult to see icons and words in the toolbar and notebookbar if they have a dark/black background. If mods think that I should be asking this in an ubuntu forum instead, I’ll understand. I can post screenshots or provide more info if it helps. If the answer is just “it’s a Gnome 42 thing”, ok, I can change to light mode when using LO, but it’s not ideal. So, my question is how can I find what is causing LO’s theme to be held back to its ubuntu 20.04 default so that I can try to replicate it in the machine that has a new installation of ubuntu 22.04.1? I don’t even know if this is possible, but any help would be appreciated. Using the same settings in “View”, “Personalization”, and “Application Colors”, the two installations present me with different menu colors in the two machines (dark and difficult to read menus in the new installation, whereas they remain the default grey that came in ubuntu 20.04 in the upgraded computer). I played around with the settings in LO Tools>Options, and compared both installations, but could find no way to make LO’s menus readable/easy to read in the new installation Ubuntu 22.04.1 when using Gnome’s dark mode. I assume that this is something leftover from 20.04 that didn’t upgrade correctly (from Ubuntu’s point of view) but it keeps me productive when using LO. ![]() However, on another laptop, I upgraded from ubuntu gnome 20.04.5 to 22.04.1 and LO kept the default theme that came with ubuntu 20.04, which is perfectly functional in Gnome’s dark mode. ![]() This happens in a new installation of ubuntu 22.04.1. Menus can be perfectly read when using Gnome’s light mode. No matter what LO themes I try the issue persists. I searched online and it appears to be an issue with gnome 42. If I change to a lighter LO theme (Tools>Options>Personalization) when using Gnome’s dark mode LO’s menu buttons become unreadable (white letters over a light background). In ubuntu 22.04.1 (vanilla/gnome) Libreoffice’s top menus are very difficult to read when using dark mode because they also become dark. ![]()
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