Dealing with GNOME Global Dark Theme

Has anyone run into the auto-application of the newer GNOME / GTK3 “Global Dark Theme”? I just received updates from a couple of my “more Linux aware” users that the setting really mucks up the display of things if you don’t have a background set and you use font colors that ar enot full black or full white.

I use a more stylized deep gray for text on the default Window background color. The result is that the background gets updated to the dark theme, but the non-black (#1F1F1F00) text does not change to white and is impossible to read.

Any GTK coders out there know of a way to detect the global dark theme?

Well, THAT was easier than expected!

cat ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini

If it’s set, you will see:

gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme=1