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According to the 2.12 Changelog QGIS now ships with a light and a dark UI Theme. A longer description of the UI themes can be found at Nathan Woodrows blog on QGIS UI themes.

However, when I install QGIS 2.12.0-1 via OSGeo4W there is only the option to choose the default theme.

Does anybody know whether there is another option I am missing to enable the dark theme?

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Edit:

According to the QGIS repository the Theme should be saved under QGIS/ressources/themes. I am missing said themes folder even after a re-install and a fresh install of QGIS 2.12 from OSGeo4W.

Edit2:

Nathan Woodrow confirmed it as a bug and is on it. In the meantime I copied the themes folder, like @Mapperz suggested, and everything looks great now.

Edit3:

Annnnnd it is fixed. That was fast!

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  • I have asked the core programmer twitter.com/mapperz/status/658695217797664769
    – Mapperz ♦
    Oct 26, 2015 at 17:23
  • on windows 7 (pro) themes folder does not exist either C:\Program Files\QGIS Lyon\apps\qgis\resources
    – Mapperz ♦
    Oct 26, 2015 at 17:47
  • Where I have to adjust the color setting in the Night Mapping theme to make the description text from black (unreadable) to white?
    – blackgis
    Nov 20, 2015 at 19:50

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Worked this out - the theme folders are missing from the release for the QGIS UI Themes.

I created the folders and copied the files from https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/tree/master/resources

restarted QGIS and the Night Mapping Theme is now available.

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I would class this as a bug in the first release of QGIS 2.12

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    Yeah looks like a bug.
    – Nathan W
    Oct 26, 2015 at 20:07
  • Did that as well after finding the folder on Github. You beat me to the answer. Accepted as solved for future reference, until this is fixed with the next release.
    – Kersten
    Oct 26, 2015 at 20:23
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    Fix in github.com/qgis/QGIS/commit/…
    – Nathan W
    Oct 26, 2015 at 22:55
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    As well as following @mapperz instructions, I had to copy the themes directory and symbology-ng-style.db and symbology-ng-style.xml to my .qgis2 directory in my home folder. Then the Night Mapping theme was picked up. Thanks to @nathan-w for the tip! link
    – SamFranklin
    Nov 3, 2015 at 9:03
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To change the User Interface (UI) for QGIS the 'Load QSS' Plugin is required

Here is an example in QGIS 2.12

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There are 8 themes currently (restart of QGIS is not required) enter image description here

Plugin link https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/LoadQSS/

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  • +1, However, while this is a nice plugin it completely contradicts the Changelog("By default we ship with two themes: Default and Night mapping.") and the QGIS respository master which lists Night Mapping as a theme that is shipped with QGIS.
    – Kersten
    Oct 26, 2015 at 17:27
  • @Kersten it may a bug preventing the activation, this version of QGIS has only just been released. Though this is the only way I have made UI changes in previous versions.
    – Mapperz ♦
    Oct 26, 2015 at 17:42

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