Dark theme is unusable on the mac
Asked by Mike Laster:

In Dark mode the colors of filenames randomly switch from purple to cyan. This doesn't happen in light mode.

![Screen Shot 2018-10-24 at 10.56.58 AM.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/35853i65E6F8D898B5B19C/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2018-10-24 at 10.56.58 AM.png")


Answers:
author: bgannin
body: This is a regression specific to macOS Mojave and the dark mode changes introduced. We've already got ticket(s) on this and will address in a future compatibility update.

Brian Ganninger  
Senior Mac Developer, Sourcetree

comments: author: AnthoPakPak
body: This bug is unfortunately still present in the new 3.1 version...


author: GreatPeng
body: My mac is 10.15 Catalina, Sourcetree can't change light/dark mode as it sets. It always follows the system whether I choose light or dark mode.

Does anybody meet this?

comments: author: Yaroslav Sizyh
body: Yes, i confirm this bug. Has anyone found a solution?


author: ricky
body: This bug heppened to me either, my mac OS is 10.15.1,

when i upgrade Sourcetree to 4.0, and change to dark mode,

I found can't change back to light mode, It keep staying in dark mode.

well, lucky for me to know that I love light mode better.


author: Brad
body: I can also confirm this bug. I was using Light Mode in version 3.2.1 then updated to 4.0. It was still in Light mode after restarting.

Curious to see the new dark theme (assumed it had changed) I switched to 'Use macOS setting'. Now I cannot change back to Light mode unless my macOS setting is light!

Its not possible to use Light Mode whilst macOS system is using dark


author: the4yeast
body: Same here - once I moved to dark mode I cannot come back to light mode. Occasionally, as I start SourceTree, it starts in light mode, restores my tabs, and flicks to dark mode right after.


author: David Simmer
body: I'm experiencing this on 10.14.5 as well.


author: Akhtar Husain
body: [@bgannin](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/744444) Any updates on this? This is still an issue on macOs 10.15.2.


author: sou_lab
body: Same here.

macOS 10.14.6 as well.


author: strrl
body: Same issue. macOS 10.15.2.


author: Brian PushPress
body: You can fix this in OSX by opening up terminal and making sure SourceTree is closed then typing in the following, then starting back up the application.

defaults write com.torusknot.SourceTreeNotMAS NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance 1


author: Alliswell_kz
body: [@Brian PushPress](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2227599) solution works! Thank you.


author: Mahmoud
body: [@Brian PushPress](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2227599) Thanks, It works :)


author: Bimal Balakrishnan
body: it works \<3


author: Clayton_Collie
body: bless you child...@brianPushPress


author: ttn
body: ![img-o739k.jpg](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/37139iD963C420D96D46A8/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "img-o739k.jpg")![img-d4aj1.jpg](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/37140iC393E8D553165754/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "img-d4aj1.jpg")  
Dark Mode is not really optimized on Mac OS.  
Background and color not optimized.  

comments: author: DarkoDamjanovic
body: Agree. It's also hard to see which branch is selected if there is a bright window below. (because of the transparency effect) Would prefer no transparency here.  

![Screenshot 2019-12-12 at 14.20.28.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/76086iDC3444CE79BF13E8/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screenshot 2019-12-12 at 14.20.28.png")


Tags: mac