Dark Mode

[n1neb4ll]

Any possibility of adding "dark mode" to Frostbite?

[fourier]

What do you mean? You can edit your color theme however you like right now.

[Feynt]

You can edit your colour theme, but every time I start it up (years after this ticket opened) I'm greeted with a white background and black text. So that means every time I open the client I have to adjust my colours again.

[matoom]

I have to say i'm unable to reproduce this issue on my setup but there's a few things to consider.

You mentioned that you're running a version of the client you compiled yourself. It depends how you compile it but if you compile it for release, there's a custom (could be very sensitive to installation environment) script that copies all the necessary files to make the final release with everything prepackaged. This might be something that breaks things and it won't hurt to double check that everything is where it should be.

Meaning all files from here are copied:

https://github.com/matoom/frostbite/tree/master/deploy/common
https://github.com/matoom/frostbite/tree/master/deploy/linux/profiles

Final release is supposed to look like this:

From client.ini it loads a default profile, found in profile directory - frostbite (light theme), storm gray (dark theme).

These are the prepackaged themes (can be switched from the profile menu) or manually from client.ini:

[Profile]
name=frostbite
type=L

If there are no themes present, everything falls back on default settings. And what you described sounds a lot like there's some kind of an issue with writing configs on disk (permissions, locations or who knows what) with colors and including other settings like quick buttons etc.

If this is the case you could try manually adding a general.ini file in the same location as your binary (pick colors you like):

[GameWindow]
background=#4D4D4D
fontColor=#B4FF05

[DockWindow]
background=#4D4D4D
fontColor=#B4FF05

[Commandline]
background=#4D4D4D
fontColor=#B4FF05

See if this has any effect (only if no profiles are loaded).

No profiles or no profiles checked.