Old qbtheme
The method of compiling qbtheme was too difficult. Very time consuming for me. Change values, compile, restart qBittorrent, repeat the process. Because there is no guarantee that changing that value will change the appearance. We change the various values until the desired color changes. It takes 1-2 hours to change one place. Or, after a lapse of time, conclude that it's unchangeable. I would oppose repeating this process on a regular basis.

This was already the case in 2020-2021. However, I would like to believe that I have created an ideal dark theme. There are major changes to qBittorrent that break existing themes. They don't preserve existing themes. It takes me a long time to make a theme twice. However, Most people can't customize the theme. There will remain unrepaired themes. That is the prediction.

Furthermore, .qbtheme was going to be disabled in 4.6.0. See #18214 below.

See also qbtheme specification change issue

But there was also good news : New theme customization feature

• By the end of 2022 I rediscovered the native dark theme. It switches between dark and light without restarting qBittorrent. But the color is too primary and not good. : qbittorrent/qBittorrent#17081 (comment)
• The UI theme customization feature was also announced for version 4.6.0. : qbittorrent/qBittorrent#18214

Within Issue #17081 above, a improved native dark theme was released in May 2023, in version 4.6.0alpha1!
Version 4.6.0 has already been released on October 22, 2023.

We can easily change the UI now.

How to call new UI Theme Configuration

You need to start with this command (Portable apps are also possible):

• qbittorrent -style fusion -platform windows:darkmode=2 or
• qbittorrent.exe -style fusion -platform windows:darkmode=2 (Just added .exe)

1. The easy way is to create a shortcut.
2. Open the properties of the created shortcut.
3. Add the command after the path.
4. Press OK.
5. Turn off "Use custom UI Theme" in qBittorrent's option.
6. Restart qBittorrent.
7. If the Windows OS color theme is set to dark, qBittorret will also be dark.
8. There are also auto apps such as: Auto Dark Mode for Windows

Built-in color issues

The new icons in version 4.5.0 use primary colors and high contrast. But we seem to be easily changeable icons. (But originally the qBittorrent's icon should be changed) I have previously created a script to batch convert the color values of qBittorrent icons.

• Icon samples for dark
• Convert script : https://github.com/maboroshin/qBittorrentSVGiconConverter

All that remains would be to improve qBittorrent's built-in color values. However, Icon colors without design such as red value 255 should also be corrected.

glassez said:

Windows Vista style, used on Windows by default, doesn't support dark mode. When you enable darkmode=2 (via command line, environment variable or qt.conf) Qt handles Windows dark mode by automatically change style to "legacy" Windows. This doesn't seem to work anymore, starting with Qt 6.5, so you need to manially activate some style that supports dark mode. In a future version, we are testing Fusion style to be used by default.

There is currently only a single screenshot in the README and it's not obvious what theme it's displaying.

Please add screenshots of all the themes and label them (ICEBURG.qbtheme, Solarized.qbtheme and ayuDark.qbtheme)

In the default scheme all the top 3 items, status, categories and tags show without the need for scrolling each of them.

Theme tested here: ayuDark.qbtheme

Issue with theme

Default theme. They're all in the same view as shown here:

Not sure if it worked in previous versions. Closed and opened, then exited (shut down) and restarted. Other custom UI themes not working.

Overall this looks and works great, I slightly prefer ayuDark followed by Absinthe/ICEBERG, but there are three problems I've found:

1. When hovering over a line, it's orange, but after selecting it, it's blue, which is the same color as a completed torrent, so it's hard to tell which line is selected. I'd prefer either it stay orange or use a different color altogether. If somebody can point me to where/how to change this, I'd appreciate it.

2. A minor issue, but the "Filter torrent names..." text in the search bar is difficult to read due to it's small size and very light gray color.

3. Also minor, the "Automatic Torrent Management, Download in sequential order, Download first and last pieces first, and Super seeding mode" text in the right-click menu is smaller and less indented than the other text.

Thanks for your work, my eyes definitely appreciate it!

qBittorrent 4.4.3 x64. Windows 11.
Tested with ICEBERG and Solarized.

E.g. in deletion dialog, with the default UI you can see the focused button by its highlighted border (Cancel here, it's focused by default), and see the focus change with keyboard navigation (Tab, arrow keys):

But not so in the custom themes. Here the OK and Cancel buttons look the same, even though Cancel is focused:

I've set the theme like this:

But it remains in the light theme. How do I solve this, please?

System: elementary OS 5.1.7
qbittorrent: v4.3.2

There's a problem with black texts on a dark background unless the torrent is clicked on or hovered over. I'm currently using Iceberg but I've tried switching to ayuDark and the dark on dark situation is the same. It'd be great if the text colour is something lighter e.g. white. Thank you!

Version: qBitTorrent v4.3.0

right-click on the torrent that has not been downloaded yet

Hello
The category in the context menu is really tight, I think it's related to my screen resolution.
Original :

Absinthe.qbtheme :

Thank you for your work.

Windows 10

I'm using ayudark (rev 3) and all the text colours are grey ie error, downloading and seeding instead of red (error), green (downloading) and whatever colour seeding is meant to be. is it meant to be like that?

Apart from that, great themes. 👍

Waitting to qBittorrent ver 4.2.2

The above includes these changes

• Transfer list's text color : Allow transfer list text color changes through QSS #11433
• Progress bar (Not changeable yet?): Improve Transfer list architecture #11708

I still don't understand how to reflect. Please tell me. I understand easy programming only.

Related issue

• Issues waiting for release 4.2３

Greetings to all. The latest version of qBittorrent is available (4.3.9), this program uses the ICEBERG theme. Torrents that are inactive are highlighted with a color that is almost the same as the background color, which makes the torrent names almost invisible. Is it possible to change the color for these torrents?

Sweet dude....Very close, just need to get rid of the janky gradients on the lower buttons. Then it will be perfect! Gradients on the interface is a bit outdated and don't look good. Take them off and you will have the best theme by far :)

Hi, is it possible to use this theme if I'm running webui?

Thank you

Please assume that QT (Theme) can use old CSS. So what we can do is within this limit.

• Qt Style Sheets Reference

1. If the value is fixed in the program, not in the theme, the value cannot be changed. Program change required. Please request at qBittorrent.
2. CSS structural limitations. To specify a value, it must be distinguished by a "parent> child" structure. Or have a class. For the same structure "Tab> Table", the same value is specified.

If the above two conditions cannot be solved in a CSS style (Qt's qss), the program needs to be improved.

I am almost a beginner about the program. I am not involved in the program. I don't know.

I try to use colors like Discord everywhere. It would be cool if you made a slightly grayer theme.

running qbittorrent 4.4.1 with the latest version of the Theme, and as the screenshot bellow shows the text on the progressbar isnt well centered, dunno if this is a bug with qbitorrent itself (all the themes i tried gave me this) or with the themes themselves (this one included)

qb: v4.2.5 x64
OS: Windows 10 x64

1. Open Speed tab at the bottom of the transfer list
2. Click on "Select Graphs" menu

Result: checkboxes are covered with the text

Expected result: checkboxes aren't covered with the text:

• original theme
  
• jagannatharjun's darkstylesheet.qbtheme
  

Additional info: I think it might be working correctly in jagannatharjun's theme cause there is another issue the menus, which was fixed in maboroshin's themes:

• jagannatharjun's theme
  
• maboroshin's theme
  

The "Execution Log" tab is unreadable on the "ayuDark.qbtheme" theme because of the text having almost the exact same color as the background.

Stalled torrent are way to dark with this new version of qBitorrent

tested with all themes pictures using ICEBERG

Is it possible to edit theme colors like the text color of seeding torrents? I've found the "config_ICEBERG.json" file in the source code which has some color codes. How do I turn the source code files to a single .qbtheme file?

1. Automatic Torrent Management, Download in sequential order, Download first and last pieces first, Super seeding mode (not in pictures) all have empty spaces on the vanilla theme, but have this weird squares on the custom themes. Weirdly, Queue does not share the same problem.

2. The context menus missing borders (or different color borders) blend into the content and makes it look weird. I recommend using the same border colors as used on the tooltips when you hover over the top icons.

Sorry for all the screenshots, I wanted to make sure the problem persists on all themes.

As seen in the following screenshots, some of the icons are messed up so this theme needs some updating.

Percentage text is cropped in ALL themes at any resolution setting in Windows 10 and 11, except for the Dracula theme, which is the only qBittorrent theme on github, in whose percentage text is NOT cropped and displays perfectly.

CROPPED PERCENTAGE TEXT IN ALL THEMES:

EXCEPT...

GOOD PERCENTAGE TEXT IN DRACULA THEME:

the white bar at the top. i am using iceberg theme

The last version of the Solarized theme is identical to ICEBERG, and they have the same checksums. The previous version works as expected, so I guess it's just a copypaste error.

First: ayuDark is, from my point of view, the best dark theme. However it has two problems:
You cannot differ between selected and un-selected items, they are all the same nearly black color.
Hovering over an item does not highlight it.
Black is not actually black, it is 01060E.
Both "fixed" versions, the one with select and highlight color fixed, and the other one with actually black as background color are available at:
https://github.com/Joachim-Otahal/qbittorrent-theme
Feel free to incorporate what I changed in your repo, you did the initial work anyway - thank you for that.

Unknown issue with dark theme. Probably need to improve the program, not only the theme.

Let me know if you find a solution.

Unsolved color

• Checkbox on the transfer list's context menu

Corrected on ver 4.5.0

• Icons: Error, Warning

Corrected on ver 4.3.0

• Link text color (Blue problem)
• Availability color (Changed)
• Log text color (Include same blue problem)

Corrected on ver 4.2.2

• Menu's margin

Sample references

• Sample code of qss
• Sample code of qss2
• setDefaultStyleSheet
• Qt Style Sheets Examples

Can you change progress bar percentage color in next update? Yellow perhaps?
This is how it looks now on dark theme:

Also checkbox should have ✓ as a check mark, looks better.
And icons far above should have a bit brighter color:

Hi. your themes are the best. I especially like the iceberg one. Unfortunately, with the latest stable version of qBittorrent 4.3.6, if I use the 4.3.0 Rev10 theme, the title bar remains white. It doesn't switch to dark mode even if Windows is in dark mode. Apart from that, the rest of the theme looks fine. So, I think to update the theme for the latest stable version, you just have to make that minor change of the title bar.

• issue : Dark Mode (Native Support) #17081
• Allow to modify default UI theme #18214 (4.6.0) Maybe the end of .qbtheme
• Re-allow to use icons from system theme #18195 (4.5.1 later)

• Fix Pause Icon #18110 (4.6.0)
  : torrent-stop.svg Changed color.

• Fix color inconsistency #18226 (4.5.1 later)
  : browser-cookies.svg , view-refresh.svg Changed color.
  : filter-stalled.svg Change to a form common to others.

• https://primer.style/primitives/colors : Color Reference

• Revise text color for completed status #18139 (4.5.1 later) + Introduce color palettes for both dark, light themes #17798 (4.5.0)

• Dark
  : accentEmphasis #1f6feb
  : accentFg #58a6ff
  : dangerFg #f85149
  : doneFg #388bfd -> #a371f7
  : fgMuted #8b949e
  : fgSubtle #6e7681
  : severeFg #db6d28
  : successEmphasis #238636
  : successFg #1a7f37 -> #3fb950
  : scaleYellow6 #845306

• Light
  : accentEmphasis #0969da
  : accentFg #0969da
  : dangerFg #cf222e
  : doneFg #218bff -> #8250df
  : fgMuted #57606a
  : fgSubtle #6e7781
  : severeFg #bc4c00
  : successEmphasis #2da44e
  : successFg #1a7f37
  : scaleYellow6 #7d4e00

• Use proper color for highlighted text in log widget #17737 (4.5.0)

• Enhance readability in execution log across light/dark themes #17714 (4.5.0)
  : Normal color is not mono tone
  : Log.Normal #3cb371 mediumseagreen
  : Log.Info #6495ed cornflowerblue
  : Log.Warning #ff8c00 darkorange
  : Log.Critical #ff0000 red

• Fix checked-completed icon visibility in dark theme #17946 (4.5.0) Used Qt's color

• Rename Icons according to the actions #17366 (4.5.0)
  : application-rss+xml.svg -> application-rss.svg
  : application-x-mswinurl -> application-url
  : edit-find-user -> peers
  : folder-documents -> folder-open
  : help-contents -> help-documentation
  : inode-directory -> directory
  : kt-magnet -> torrent-magnet
  : kt-set-max-download-speed -> download
  : kt-set-max-upload-speed -> upload
  : mail-folder-inbox -> mail-inbox
  : media-playback-pause -> torrent-stop
  : media-playback-start -> torrent-start
  : media-seek-forward -> torrent-start-forced
  : office-chart-line -> chart-line
  : preferences-other -> preferences-advanced
  : preferences-system-network -> preferences-bittorrent
  : preferences-web-browser-cookies -> browser-cookies
  : user-group-delete -> peers-remove
  : user-group-new -> peers-add
  : webui -> preferences-webui

• Implement new icon/color theme #15769
  : queued -> checking
  : checked -> completed
  : edit-rename -> document-edit
  : help-about and help-contents -> document-properties
  : downloading -> download
  : list-remove -> edit-delete
  : task-complete -> mail-mark-read
  : media-playback-pause -> paused.svg
  : media-playback-start -> resumed
  : kt-set-max-upload-speed -> seeding
  : loading -> sphere
  : dialog-warning -> task-attention
  : task-reject -> unavailable
  : kt-set-max-upload-speed -> uploading
  : filterinactive -> view-filter
  : qbittorrent-tray -> qbittorrent-tray-with-font

• Add an option to disable icons in menus #14428 (4.3.4)
• Correctly draw the background of progress bar #14472 (4.3.4)
• Correctly draw progress background with stylesheet #14840 (4.3.5)
• Correctly draw progress background with stylesheet (backport v4_3_x) #14872 (4.3.5)
• Fix invalid RSS feed icons #15396 (4.40 or later)
• "Enable native Windows 10 dark theme support by default" #13952
• Discussion of standard icons for dark : "Redesigned Icons #12965"

Memo

• (Memo 2022-12 ) ver4.5.0 ver4.5.1 ver4.6.0
• (Memo 2022-12 )ver4.4.0 ver4.4.1
• ver4.3.1, ver4.3.2 ver4.3.3 ver4.3.4 ver4.3.5

Previous : #5 Waiting for release 4.3.0

I believe this problem probably only affects high DPI displays. As you can see the text is cut off.

All other text looks fine. Even the very small text in the search bar looks fine.

Since this is probably specific to those of us using 4K / High DPI screens, is there a work-around for us? Maybe a way to set the progress bar text to a smaller size?

Waitting to qBittorrent ver 4.2.3 or ver 4.2.4 or ver 4.2.5 or ver 4.3.0 or later

• (Merged) Log text color: Convert the Log widget to use custom View/Model #12144 in here now
• Change icons? (Add icon's ID) : Map Icons with IDs #10948, Icon theme support in qbittorrent #10903 (4.3.0)
• Allow changing RSS article list colors from custom UI theme #13246 (4.3.0)
• Use palette colors in pieces bars #13256 (4.3.0)
• Use palette colors in RSS feeds #13226 (4.3.0)

I still don't understand how to reflect. Please tell me. I understand easy programming only.

Also

• Redesigning theme icons #12169

Memo: Light icons

• MainMenu.PauseAction
• MainMenu.PauseAllAction
• Torrent.Paused
• Torrent.Error
• TransferList.PauseAction

Memo:

• icons folder in qBittorrent

Next : #22 Waiting for release Next

Sorry, I just noticed, that this was because of the sorting arrow.

In that bar (I don't know, how it's called) is a d missing at Up Speed. I think this wasn't missing before I installed the theme (solarized)

@charmesal reported in #3:

I'm also having color issues but nothing like you have described already. Some text is still dark and the background of some fields are still white. This could be an issue with Gnome but I am unable to find anything about this yet. I'm still a beginner when it comes to programming but I might be able to help with testing.

Please change "Missing pieces" color to red, and "complete pieces" color to blue.

Please change "Unavailable pieces" color to red, and "available pieces" color to blue.

Please make changes to the shade of all colors as they are a bit hard to see. (Blue and green almost blends together and is barely legible).

Optional: I don't know if it was a design decision, but there is a blue outline on just the top and left sides of the progress bar, it kind of looks out of place imo. Makes changes to it as you see fit, or don't. Up to the dev(s).

Thank you. :))