How to enable Dark Theme in Studio

Alright that’s really good to know

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Can you provide a screenshot? What icons are you talking about?
I think the studio team had to switch to a newer version of ribbon to support the dark theme effectively, but I don’t know the specifics.

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I just double checked and I found that both are the normal size. My guess is that since the icons don’t fully support dark mode yet, they just seem smaller. :confused:

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yeah it’s just an illusion. That actually really bothered me and I’m still gonna stick with light theme because it seems slightly larger.

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Not for sure if this is normal but it looks like the UI Editor icon is a tad messed up image

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Yep, known. Will be resolved next week

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Updated with a method that works with default studio and doesn’t need the mod manager

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Came here to say this.

Any time you’re forcing features on like this, keep in mind that there are reasons they’re not enabled. If they don’t work right or do something wild like trash your AppData, you can’t really complain. :wink:

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Good thing I included a detailed guide!

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Thanks for this tutorial. Really helped me while testing an update to my Editor Themes plugin! It now switches UI theme based on the script editor theme chosen. If anyone wants to try it out (and has enabled the flag), you can grab it here: https://www.roblox.com/library/1858434956/Editor-Themes

It’s pretty satisfying to see it all change together. If you haven’t enabled the flag for UI Theme then it just acts as usual, affecting only the script editor colours.

Here’s a quick video of it in action for those who don’t want to mess around with their Studio variables: https://youtu.be/mJf7rcjVlj4

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Oh wow, I didn’t know about this plugin! Definitely installing right now.

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Mines just set to VS :confused:

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I’m saying you should mind that stuff like that could happen any time you force a feature on, because you don’t know why it’s disabled.

If the dark theme currently had a ~1/150 chance to completely trash all of your AppData when you open Studio with it on, a detailed guide on how to enable it wouldn’t help.

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Hey Developers,

Please beware of unintended consequences when changing Fast Flags on Roblox Studio. We do not encourage developers changing Fast Flags themselves for a variety of reasons. Here’s a topic that provides more details about what Fast Flags are and the dangers of altering them yourself: Warning About Developers Using Fast Flags

Thanks,
Astranox
Developer Engagement Team

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Will new Lua Widgets automatically adapt to dark mode or does that have to be done by the plugin developer?

Also, any way we could get the window title bar to change colors also?

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I can’t say anything about the first one since I don’t use widgets, but for the second one I can say that you can not change the color of that from within studio or by changing any settings in studio.(At least to my knowledge)

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I know we can’t change it ourselves, I was just hoping it could be something that is a thing in the future

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My bad

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Known issue, will be fixed next week.

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If its of any help, my program has a warning prompt that the user must accept before it allows you to use the FFlag editor:

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