Dark Mode in macOS Mojave

[Sappharad]

Just wanted to note that dark mode looks really bad. I don't really think there's too much you can do about this given the purpose is to replicate WinForms, other than forcing default colors that match the light defaults. The NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance plist key can be used to opt-out of dark mode for the app as a whole, but it sounds like that approach is only supposed to be a temporary work-around.

I know you mentioned somewhere at some point that you don't intend to support this other than your own needs, but I thought it was worth having this problem documented. I may eventually look into the problem myself but it's not a priority in the near future.

[filipnavara]

We would appreciate any help in getting it working better. Our application will need to support the dark mode eventually, so it is something we want to get working, but we didn't fully investigate it yet. I know that currently some system colours can become transparent and be assigned to controls that don't support transparency and it will result in exceptions. We'd like to document all the broken stuff first before designing a solution. That said, we already experimented with some visual effect backgrounds to match the native Cocoa look more closely and the results were promising.

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[filipnavara]

Commit 8c7ef92 slightly improves it, but there's a lot of work to do.

[filipnavara]

Made a bit more progress towards using the right colors at the right places: