Issues on macOS 10.14 and dark mode

Thanks for the report.

Does anyone else know what wxwidgets is doing about dark mode?

It was reported 4 months ago and there has been some activity on it, but it is not clear what the current status is:
https://trac.wxwidgets.org/ticket/18146

For anyone else trying to work out a nice solution for this, without disabling dark mode system wide, just disable it for KiCAD by running the following command in the terminal:

defaults write org.kicad-pcb.kicad NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance true

I posted a bug report on this last night and was found to be a duplicate of this bug. In that bug report (at https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1804351), I suggest that the default behavior of KiCad should be to disable dark mode for the app by aletering the Info.plist duke. I would like to offer that suggestion here in this thread. It’s a quick one line change and works like a champ.

Seth/Jeff,

Here is a patch for your convenience, would you be able to verify it? Do not hesitate to commit the changes if they are ok.

Looks good here! @Adam, any issues?

I'm still on High Sierra so if it looks good to Seth and Adam I'm good with it.

I'm fine with it! Merge away!

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Fixed in revision 766156ed87579e2d2866ade3e0d95a41cadbe2af
https://git.launchpad.net/kicad/patch/?id=766156ed87579e2d2866ade3e0d95a41cadbe2af

Thank you for the confirmation, I have just merged the patch.

Kicad doesn't look under Mojave too.

Hi Philipp,

Please add the version information, we would like to know whether you run KiCad with the dark mode fix applied.

Hi Maciej,

Application: kicad
Version: (5.0.1-3-g963ef8bb5), release build
Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.0.4
    libcurl/7.54.0 LibreSSL/2.6.4 zlib/1.2.11 nghttp2/1.24.1
Platform: Mac OS X (Darwin 18.2.0 x86_64), 64 bit, Little endian, wxMac
Build Info:
    wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (UTF-8,STL containers,compatible with 2.8)
    Boost: 1.67.0
    OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
    Curl: 7.54.0
    Compiler: Clang 10.0.0 with C++ ABI 1002

Build settings:
    USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=ON
    USE_WX_OVERLAY=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
    BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
    KICAD_SPICE=ON

Your version does not contain the dark mode patch. Most likely it will be included in 5.0.2.