Okular was recommended for annotating PDF files, and it does a great job so far… But using it is difficult, especially for those of us with limited vision.
Some things are hard to see, some are pretty much invisible unless I select them with my mouse - like the mid section of the new filename.
Or:
(See reply - limit of one image…)
Can other people read that black text on dark gray background?
I found lots of settings that affect the file I’m editing, but so far nothing that fixes the app interface. I searched the bug tracker and found several similar complaints going back years, with no suggestions or resolution.
I tried installing Okular on my Arch Linux, but it has been stuck on this error for weeks now:
I'm trying to install okular 24.11.90-1, and have found this since Thanksgiving:
:: Retrieving packages...
plasma-activities-6.2.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst failed to download
Looks like that has been updated:
https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/plasma-activities/
plasma-activities 6.2.4-1
Build Date: 2024-11-27 11:02 UTC
Okular shows:
Build Date: 2024-11-29 13:35 UTC
Any suggestions for making my Debian version more visible, or finding out if the Arch version might use different colors, would be really appreciated!
Settings → Color Theme says “Default”. It looked like this the first time I started it after installation. I tried to change some things but none helped the app interface so I went back to defaults.
Maybe I missed something, I have to select each option to see what it says!
Lost me there… I tried typing “global theme” on the “Welcome to Okular” - “Recent Documents” screen of the app, on the empty medium brown window that appeared when I closed that, and outside Okular on the actual Debian desktop, and nothing happened.
There’s Help → Find Action… but options there are invisible, and the one that says “Color Mode” if I park my mouse on it does nothing when I click it.
Maybe this Raspberry Pi version just doesn’t work? Wish I could install on Arch!
It looks like Pi OS is trying to apply its colours to Okular but failing at it. I don’t know how this works on Pi OS exactly, but if you have qt5ct / qt6ct installed, you might be able to configure the theme there.
@skyfishgoo Sorry to seem so helpless, but when I choose Settings from the top menu there is no Search box. The Configure Okular choice has no Search box, either. Unless they are just invisible…
@jbb Since I used the qt5ct command, and put everything back to the original settings, I believe…, the Okular start page is in a dark-er mode, and all the choices in Settings are now visible, pale white on medium dark. The top menu choices outside of Settings are still mostly invisible black text on very dark gray.
Choosing Settings → Color Scheme → Default puts the start page beck to white and the Settings menu back to the weird invisible colors. Just running qt5ct in the terminal without changing anything instantly flips them back to dark and visible.
Isn’t PiOs a gtk? More specifically LXDE? From the looks of some of your titlebars you’re using openbox. If so, then yes, in order to run okular you’ll need qt5ct. You’ll also need Qt5-style-plugins. See, what gives. If you’re still having probs, you might wanna consider using Okular in a kvantum style.
I haven’t used qt5ct in some time, but if you can set the style to Breeze and the color theme to breeze as well, Okular should look as it would on Plasma, without the wrong colors.
