Elements do not get their attribute colours from themes.

[Smithor]

Noticeable mostly within Menu items, but I'm sure there are a lot more spaces that I am unaware of. Most UI elements specify their own defaults, which is fine, but they should also have reference to the theme at a centralized level. Ideally this should be completed somewhere near the root view class for a particular type.

Recording showcasing the defaults re-asserting themselves within a menu bar item.

Screencast_20260602_093153.webm

This brings up a followup question of whether themes should only affect colouring, or if it should be able to affect UI size as well. There are advantages to both choices. To my knowledge, SnapKit so far only supports colouring changes. It would be useful to support font, and size changes as well.

While Swing's default themes are a little rough, the ability to slot in a theme like Lightlaf is game changing for helping a program find its own space.

[reportmill]

I definitely need to spend time polishing support for Dark mode. I really have only barely tested it since I added all the new ViewStyle stuff recently. The dark mode definition in ViewThemeUtils even still uses ViewStyle API instead of style sheet text. And the old dark mode support was incomplete too. I know many hard-core people really demand dark mode, so I really wanted to get the fundamentals in there, but then I moved it down my priority list a few notches.

Also, the size stuff should work, at least as far as changing the default font, padding and spacing. However, I haven't yet added support for "em" units, which would allow padding/spacing to be defined in terms of font size. Again, the fundamentals are in there, so it shouldn't be disrupting when it's added.

[Smithor]

Having effective theming is relatively important for a UI library, but I think you are right, low priority right now. The skeleton that is there is effective enough (almost there), just had a couple things that stood out. I would save issues like these for a "I need a break, let me do something else" kind of fix time hah.