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Finder window (Save As/Export, etc) show up in light color even though the system/app theme is dark

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
April 9, 2020
11 replies
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I know its not a huge issue but as a designer its a little irritating. When running under the darkest theme in Illustrator and Indesign the open, save, export, and place dialogues are all in light themes even with the OS in Dark mode. All of the dialouges in Photoshop however show up dark.

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Correct answer Christopher-James

Hi @msingleton

I know this is an old thread but the answer from @Ashutosh_Mishra - Adobe Employee just said a lot about how Adobe are blind to anything any end user has to say, they don't even read a post correctly, time and time again!

You can force dark mode for the finder UI windows for InDesign for Mac using this command through the Terminal app.

Currently on InDesign 17.4

Make sure InDesign is closed
Open a new terminal window
Copy and paste the below code and press return
Open InDesign and test

defaults write com.adobe.InDesign NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool NO

Hope this makes you happy that now all adobe apps have the same UI, it makes me happy (kind of, just now have to assign global palette names!!)

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Anonymous

2023 and still no fix from Adobe. Still no relevant response from Ashtuosh.

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Marius Bienius

Inspiring

The question was asked in April 2020. We are at the end of September 2023 and the problem still persists. The solution given by Christopher-James works great. Meanwhile, Adobe still hasn't fixed the bug. Shame.

Rishabh_Tiwari

Legend

Hi,

Sorry to hear about the trouble. Can you share a few screenshots of the UI and the version of InDesign & OS so that we can reproduce the issue on our end? We'll try our best to assist you with this.

Thanks
Rishabh

FoxCadet

Known Participant

Seriously? It's been 3 years and no one fixed this yet?

M

msingletonAuthor

Participant

I find this issue very intruiging honestly, the simple fact that they think its a user setting issue or something like that. But Ironcialy sometime during all of this they implemented the option to change the Adobe Cloud app to dark mode so theres that.

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kevgart

Participant

I can't believe this hasn't been rolled out to InDesign yet - like what!

It honestly can't be that difficult to implement as its already done for PS.

It ALOT of things like this that show that Adobe are lazy - and too busy adding expanding rather than fixing the programs they have.

Christopher-JamesCorrect answer

Participant

Hi @msingleton

I know this is an old thread but the answer from @Ashutosh_Mishra - Adobe Employee just said a lot about how Adobe are blind to anything any end user has to say, they don't even read a post correctly, time and time again!

You can force dark mode for the finder UI windows for InDesign for Mac using this command through the Terminal app.

Currently on InDesign 17.4

Make sure InDesign is closed
Open a new terminal window
Copy and paste the below code and press return
Open InDesign and test

defaults write com.adobe.InDesign NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool NO

Hope this makes you happy that now all adobe apps have the same UI, it makes me happy (kind of, just now have to assign global palette names!!)

H

H Chinaski

Inspiring

Hey, works great. Many thanks.

H

H Chinaski

Inspiring

+1. Very annoying, both the original issue and the fact that nothing happens.

PixelFactory Agency

Participating Frequently

Any news about it?

I guess enough time has passed for the Adobe team to fix such a little thing like this.

Barb Binder

Community Expert

Hi Srishti:

Oddly, Photoshop honors the dark interface for those dialog boxes.

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

Srishti Bali

Community Manager

Thanks for sharing this, Barb. I will pass it on to our engineers to look into this.

Regards!

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Arturo9to7

Participant

It has gotten even worse.

In the latest version of InDesign (16.01) the dialog boxes do not remember resizing, and always appear in default size.

They are still white even if the Dark mode is enabled in system and Indesign has dark interface.

It seems that the focus in Adobe software development is not on usability that such a basic things can not be fixed for so long time. Stop developing all those new marketing features and concentrate on making everything you have crammed into your programs work, so that they become usable for real work again.

BTW with latest 2 updates I have had hundreds of crashes with basic functions, way more than in previous years combined. Indesign has become a major obstacle on getting my work done in time.

Srishti Bali

Community Manager

Hi Barb,

Thanks you so much for reaching out and highlighting this. I understand your concern but this is an expected behavior in all Adobe Applications (even with PS).

I will pass on this feedback to our Product team and you could you also post it on our UserVoice page and paste the link here, so that others can also upvote this request.

Regards,

Srishti

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halogen88

Can we get an update on this as it was 7 months ago, and Dark Mode in MacOS was released widespread 2.5+ years ago.

Yet this still doesn't work, and nothing has been communicated to users.

We expect more from an industry leader in creative software.

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msingletonAuthor

Participant

Funny, I was just thinking about this again myself. I went ahead and put in some user interface bug reports.

https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-desktop-bugs/suggestions/42086857-dialogue-menus-don-t-show-up-in-the-dark-theme

https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs/suggestions/42086800-some-dialogue-menus-are-not-in-dark-mode

Barb Binder

Community Expert

Having Ashtuosh (an Adobe employee) on this thread is helpful, but I recommend filing a bug report for both apps:

InDesign: https://indesign.uservoice.com/
Illustrator: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/

If you come back here and post the links, I will vote for them.

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

Barb Binder

Community Expert

Hi Ashutosh:

I think the OP is pointing out that even with the dark interface selected, those four specific dialog boxes are still light. I have my Mac in dark mode as well as InDesign in dark mode and those dialog boxes don't honor it. It bothers me as well—my eyes are very sensitive to light.

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

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