Filter Settings are invisible in Dark mode

[shotcut]

I do not experience on KDE Neon. See this; you need to change something:

Visual contrast of text - KDE (x11) - ui/ux is black on slate

I found this problem can occur with the following combination: system light theme Shotcut default Fusion Dark theme The environment variable QT_QUICK_CONTROLS_CONF is set. Shotcut needs to set this on itself to set the palette for some components. However, it will not if it is already set (respect the user-defined env var). Change one of these and the problem goes away. I have a KDE Neon (based on Ubuntu 24.04) system, and it does not define that env var. Run echo $QT_QUICK_CONTROLS_CONF in …

I made a change for the next version to not respect a system- or user-supplied QT_QUICK_CONTROLS_CONF environment variable in case that is the issue.

Here is our heuristic for determining light vs. dark in the System or System Fusion themes:

(palette().color(QPalette::Text).lightnessF() > 0.5f)

It is possible you are using a system palette that confuses that. That reads simply: if the text is more than half-gray (i.e. white, near white, or light) then use the dark theme palette. The problem you see is that the light theme’s palette is being used for the Qt Quick QML parts of the UI.

It is also possible the package you are using (not our build) did something weird to patch or break what we have done.