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Minor issue: Alfred may forget to update some of its UI if system toggles appearance


Chris Messina

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I activated Alfred but then put my display to sleep. When I returned, my system had toggled from light to dark appearance, and it seemed like the active search for Alfred had made the switch, but the rest of Alfred hadn't:

 

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Update: same thing happened when macOS toggled in the opposite direction:

 

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@Chris Messina I'm still trying to reproduce this, can I ask some more questions:

  • Do you see this with all themes, or just specific ones?
  • Does Alfred's default themes exhibit this issue?
  • On hiding then re-showing Alfred is it back to normal? Or do you need to do something specific to kick things back to normal?

Cheers,

Andrew

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9 minutes ago, Andrew said:

On hiding then re-showing Alfred is it back to normal?

 

Yup. The sleep is irrelevant, I believe. The colours in Alfred's main window don't fully update if it's open when macOS switches themes.

 

9 minutes ago, Andrew said:

Do you see this with all themes, or just specific ones?

 

I've seen it with both custom themes that I use (on Catalina).

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@deanishe hmm yeah, I can see that now... I'm not sure how "fixable" this is when there is a different backing view (e.g. visual light -> visual dark), as the window would need to be hidden.

 

I'm interested in if just hiding and re-showing fixes it for @Chris Messina, as if it doesn't that's a more serious issue.

 

I'll see what I can do to minimise the impact of this.

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I think the way I'll fix this is make Alfred hold on to the currently visible theme until re-shown, so if it switches while Alfred is visible, the current theme is retained until the next time you show Alfred. This will at least stop mixed elements.

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4 hours ago, Andrew said:

I'm interested in if just hiding and re-showing fixes it for @Chris Messina, as if it doesn't that's a more serious issue.

 

Yes, hiding/showing Alfred refreshes the display. It is a minor issue (as I mentioned in the topic title) but still seems like erroneous/undesirable behavior (though likely not very common).

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