Automatic Dark/Light Not Respected

[maymage]

Hi all,

setting style to automatic and switching GNOME to dark has no effect, which seems to be a flatpak specific issue, see

https://git.jami.net/savoirfairelinux/jami-client-qt/-/issues/723#note_43214

[ovari]

Unfortunately, it is not only a Flatpak-specific issue. This also does not work with Linux Mint 22.2 Cinnamon when Jami is installed with the DEB installation file.

[maymage]

Meaning this issue should be closed and a corresponding one opened over at Jamie's issue tracker?

[Zahrun]

On Tuxedo OS (KDE Plasma 6.4.5), automatic dark/light works fine with the deb version from Jami’s repository (20250912.1). It does not with the Flatpak version. So, it is a flatpak-specific issue.

[maymage]

But ovari's comment suggests, that it is not a flatpak issue.

On the other hand

• it works on KDE
• not on GNOME
• not on Cinnamon
  So it might be a desktop platform issue.

[Ilyas-Erdogan]

But ovari's comment suggests, that it is not a flatpak issue.

On the other hand

• it works on KDE
• not on GNOME
• not on Cinnamon
  So it might be a desktop platform issue.

The fact that it works on KDE but not Gnome likely has to do with the fact that we use the KDE platform runtime for access to Qt modules.

[maymage]

Exactly: native Qt+KDE works. Flatpaks talk via xdg-stuff and GNOME and Cinnamon are different desktops, which for non toolkit-native apps also expect the freedesktop stuff to work.

Perhaps the issue is a years old workaround in Jami.