Unfortunately, most of the screen area remains as white.
This is the effect with the Display setting within Mp3tag set to Dark Mode.
Does anyone know if there is something within the Windows environment that Mp3tag depends on to properly change the unchanged white area to a dark colour?
Has any other Linux user found a satisfactory fix or workaround for Mp3tag that achieves a proper Dark Mode display?
If you are running a recent version of wine, before applying the breeze dark patch, first run winecfg, then under desktop integration set Theme to No Theme.
If you still have this issue I hope this solves it for you.
Many thanks for your reply. Sorry that I did not reply sooner. It is good to know that there is a way to avoid setting up a dual-boot Windows/Linux computer - just to have a proper Dark Mode Mp3tag.
One thing I have done in the meantime is to upgrade my Linux distro (Kubuntu) to the latest version. Next I will install actual Wine - instead of depending on intermediaries like Bottles - then follow the steps that you have provided.
Many thanks Kamera. I have marked your post as a solution. Thanks to you, I now have Mp3tag version 3.31a in Dark Mode running on a Linux-only computer.
Although any Linux user who does not care about Dark Mode can still use the Bottles (and, presumably, PlayonLinux) plus Flatseal combo, I would encourage switching to Wine because it has better integration with Linux with regard to Mp3tag. For example, I can now load Mp3tag either from the Linux Desktop or Start Menu. When I used Bottles, I always had to first open a Bottle then load Mp3tag from that Bottle.
Anyone considering a switch to Linux should be aware that the icon next to the Filename column which displays a white X on a red background when there could be an issue with a file, does not work. It always displays as a text icon. This is not a deal breaker for me but it is something to be aware of.
Also, Play does not work as there is no music player installed by Wine. Maybe there is a way to get Play to work. However, I am content to play my music files using my Linux music player which I can do whilst editing in Mp3tag.
While this does work, I recommend to additionally set: File → Options → Appearance → Color Mode to Default or Light
within Mp3tag. Otherwise a good portion of the Options menu may be invisible.
Default only works if you have set WinRT theme to Light in winecfg for the wine prefix you are using for Mp3tag:
My recommendation is to set No Theme and Light in winecfg and then to set Default in Mp3tag. That way you can use the same Mp3tag config on a Windows PC with Dark Mode enabled and Mp3tag ought to respect that, which allows using the same Mp3tag instance with Dark Mode on Windows as well as Linux.
is responsible for the text color/brightness in the tag column headers?
I personally find black on dark gray quite hard to read and would like them to be the same color as the text in the tag panel and the values of the columns.
