I’m using Kate with the “Use system theme” option enabled under Settings → Configure Kate → Fonts & Colors → Color Schemes. This allows Kate to automatically switch between light and dark modes depending on my KDE system’s global theme.
I created a custom dark color scheme (based on one of the existing dark themes), and I want it to be used whenever my system switches to dark mode. However, I can’t figure out how to make this specific custom scheme the default dark theme in this setup.
I know how to:
Edit a color scheme (e.g., to make indentation lines more visible)
Set a scheme as default manually
But since I’m using “Use system theme,” I need to know how to assign my custom dark theme to that automatic switching logic.
Is there a way to set my custom dark theme as the default dark scheme specifically for dark mode under “Use system theme”?
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Interesting question. I doubt it’s possible. Could be wrong though. As far as I know, it’s either this or that for now. I think that would be difficult to implement. Some sort of switch that defines whether a light or dark system theme is being used and switch the editor color theme accordingly. Or a default editor theme for light or dark. I’m afraid that for now one is stuck with a manual switch ( as a toolbar icon as the quickest option)
You can edit the colors by copying breeze dark. It will then be located in ~/.local/share/org.kde.syntax-highlighting/themes/. But since you have to rename it and I don’t have a clue how to edit the default breeze dark, where it’s even located at or if it uses the breeze dark color scheme…can’t help you with that.
