Discussion: Switch from Stylesheet to QPalette & read colors from Blender's theme

[manuelkoester]

Hey!

As it is now very easy to download & install Themes for Blender (https://extensions.blender.org/themes/), maybe it would be worth switching bqt to use an approach similar to what is being done in blender_qt for the style: https://github.com/minimalefforttech/blender_qt/blob/main/blender_qt/theme/builder.py#L168

I have a working demo locally for our own internal plugin that does something like this. If you think this is of interest I could spend a bit of time porting that to be a bqt feature?

Below is a screenshot of our approach with https://extensions.blender.org/themes/catppucin4blender/

This is only using QPalette though, so the approach would be quite different from setting the stylesheet, like it is now?

I tested this approach with couple of our UIs and it consistently looked better, even with the default theme

What do you think? Any unwanted implications of this approach?

Cheers and thanks as always ❤️

[hannesdelbeke]

this sounds like a great idea

duplicate of #79

[hannesdelbeke]

would you need to update https://github.com/hannesdelbeke/blender-qt-stylesheet or bqt itself?

[manuelkoester]

bqt itself and we wouldn't need the blender stylesheet anymore

[manuelkoester]

this sounds like a great idea

🙏 I'll gobble together a small demo MR. We'll need to see how to handle the environment variable based feature flags and such

[manuelkoester]

👀 #170