[Evolution-users] Flatpak vs native

[Milan Crha]

On Mon, 2025-12-08 at 19:26 +0100, Michael S. via evolution-users
wrote:
> For hours I fought to enable dark mode in Evo, and conceded
> it is obviously due to the convoluted way flatpak sandboxes
> applications and restricts permissions.

	Hi,
as you know, KDE and GNOME are different worlds. To use theme-related
things in GNOME (gtk3), which are set in KDE (Qt), you need some bridge
to pass the Qt settings to the gtk3 applications. There are packages to
do it, which you have installed, otherwise it won't work even for the
native app.

Nonetheless, just by an accident, there was added a change into the
Evolution to use portals to detect the dark theme mode:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/merge_requests/206
It can help here, because Flatpak is all about the portals.

Evolution itself has currently no option to force dark or light theme,
it inherits the setting from the system.

	Bye,
	Milan