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The settings store separate themes for Light and Dark modes. When the user clicks a theme, the code uses the system appearance to decide which to update, rather than the mode the user selected in the UI. This causes the wrong theme to be saved when the system appearance differs from the selected mode.

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  • Fixed onboarding page saving the selected theme based on the system appearance and not the currently selected one.

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@HackAttack HackAttack force-pushed the sync-theme-thumbnail branch from c3c41f1 to 18546cc Compare January 20, 2026 21:06
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Sincerely appreciate the updated description, with that, it became a lot easier to repro, thank you and nice find!

One comment and I think we are good to go!

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The settings store separate themes for Light and Dark modes. When the
user clicks a theme, the code uses the system appearance to decide which
to update, rather than the mode the user selected in the UI. This causes
the wrong theme to be saved when the system appearance differs from the
selected mode.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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This was what I meant so that the match here is more explicit (whilst also more verbose, but I think this is more readable).

Still, thank you for looking into and raising this and congratulations to your first contribution! 🎉

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@MrSubidubi MrSubidubi changed the title onboarding: Fix theme picker showing mismatched preview and selection onboarding: Fix theme picker always updating theme based on system appearance Jan 21, 2026
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@MrSubidubi MrSubidubi merged commit 6ab03c6 into zed-industries:main Jan 21, 2026
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…pearance (zed-industries#47245)

The settings store separate themes for Light and Dark modes. When the
user clicks a theme, the code uses the system appearance to decide which
to update, rather than the mode the user selected in the UI. This causes
the wrong theme to be saved when the system appearance differs from the
selected mode.

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/>

Release Notes:

- Fixed onboarding page sometimes rendering the wrong theme

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: MrSubidubi <finn@zed.dev>
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