Dark text on dark background in tabs

[trg818]

The problem reported here popped up after upgrading from TeXstudio v. 4.8.1. to 4.8.2.

Environment

• TeXstudio: 4.8.2
• Qt: 6.7.2
• OS: Mac OS Ventura 13.6.9
• TeX distribution: texlive (from Homebrew)

Obviously, text on a dark background should be white also in tab titles, and until the upgrade, it was. After the upgrade, the text is black. I have my desktop in dark mode.

[muzimuzhi]

What Appearance settings are you using?

[trg818]

Exactly the ones you show.

[muzimuzhi]

Can you provide a screenshot showing "black text on dark background"? Because I don't see a similar problem on macOS 14.6.1, in both bright and dark system modes.

[trg818]

See below. Note that I edited the image to conceal my user name.

[octaeder]

no issue with win10

[sunderme]

a quick check on a virtual machine with OSX 13.2.1 does not show this issue.

[bgstcola]

I had the same issue. Changing the theme and changing it back worked for me.

[trg818]

Just tried it: changed from Fusion to macOS and back, but it didn't work. It was indeed the way it should with the macOS theme (i.e., white letters on dark background), but when switching back to Fusion, the letters turned black again.

[bgstcola]

Just tried it: changed from Fusion to macOS and back, but it didn't work. It was indeed the way it should with the macOS theme (i.e., white letters on dark background), but when switching back to Fusion, the letters turned black again.

Did you change the Color Scheme as well? I'm not sure exactly what I did.

[trg818]

I tried that now. To be precise, I changed only the color scheme now (from Classical to Modern dark), and that worked, but then changing back to Classical, it went black-on-black again. However, changing the color, restarting TeXstudio, and then switching back to Classical preserved the desired white-on-black scheme.
So, thanks for the suggestion. I guess this is a workaround that will do, but obviously it remains a bug to be fixed.

[cdgks]

I just updated to 4.8.4 (on Win11) and I'm having a similar issue with black font on dark backgrounds of the drop-down menus

Appearance settings: (note Windows is in dark mode but I do NOT want TexStudio in dark mode)

[cdgks]

I figured out a work around. If I switch the "Style" to "Fusion" it works properly.

[ppizarror]

I had the same issue. I think it is related to settings while updating or any cache.

1. In MacOS 15.1. Updated from 6.7.3 to 6.8.4. Style settings in Fusion. Classic color scheme.

2. The editor tabs were the only component with black text over a black background. No other component seems to fail.
3. Changed from Fusion to Classic. Relaunch.
4. Now, changed to Fusion again. Works and preserves across distinct sessions.