This topic is intended to list all the un-theme-able elements in Blender’s UI with a goal to bring them back to zero.
If you find an un-theme-able element, please reply to this topic with a screenshot and a short description. Ideally, one element per reply so it is easier to discuss.
The List
Requested Hook-ups
Theme Space Tab
Roundness should share User Interface > Tab > Roundness [open] link
Node Editor
Color socket should use Node Editor > Color Node [open] link
Vector socket should use Node Editor > Vector Node [open] link
Shader socket should use Node Editor > Shader node [open] link
Number socket should use Node Editor > Wires [open] link
Styles
– Add Editor Outline Radius number [open] link
– Add Editor Outline Width number [open] link
– Add Transparancy rgb [open] link
– Add Transparancy Background rgb [open] link
3D View
– Add Edge Size number [open] link
– Add Frontface rgba [open] link
– Add Backface rgba [open] link
Node Editor
– Add Radius number [open] link
– Add Grid rgba [open] link
Requested Changes
– Properties > Material > Browse material to be linked > search field should use the theme settings of User Interface > TextNeeds Review - link
– User Interface > 3D View > Active Object and User Interface > 3D View > Object Selected should not affect the Wireframe viewport overlay color [open] link
– Node Editor > Node Backdrop should use Node Editor > Node Backdrop RGBA [open]link
one of the first things, obviously the colors of these icons need to be manipulated, it is enough also that we can modify the 3 colors, without having to change them one by one …
this 3 icon colors should be added in Themes > user interface > tool bar item
Same items in viewport overlay and viewport shading conflict with the color search item so we can’t fix the colors of the search items without breaking other things (the consequence is that this limits the creation of themes with certain color combinations)
they don’t exist, because they are icons that were born with these colors, and customization has never been implemented, so I made this request for papercut theme.
The interface of theming was not rewritten, the answer to many of your questions is that it remained from blender 2.7x.
A whole reorganization should be done to make everything easier to enjoy, but for the moment it is enough for me to make certain parts accessible that are not themable.
Otherwise it takes the initiative of some main dev or ui desingner, otherwise it doesn’t move a leaf, I think
Ok cool. I think it could be useful for themes to have some consistency in colouring items like ‘modifiers’ ‘shaders’ ‘transforms’ etc. I’ll see if I can find some logic names behind these groups in the toolbar.
When I get some time I’ll look into the process of making these elements theme-able and hopefully document it if others want to help. My instinct is that it shouldn’t be a very complicated process, but we’ll see.
From talking to the UI developers briefly, it looks like they aren’t excited about adding new theme color options, so whatever elements need theme-able colors, we should try to find a theme color that they should follow from the ones that are already there.
I can imagine some changes are harder than others, it would be great to know so we can focus on the easy ones first
And this is a good insight. I’m curious if the reason behind the lack of excitement for more options is too many options. And if so, would renaming / restructuring of existing items be an option?
