** v1.3 (04.11.2026):
- New Icons setting in Plugins > QGIS Studio Themes > Settings, with
three icon styles.
- Monochrome: the theme's single-colour icons, as before.
- Colourful: the same icons in the manner of professional colour icon
sets such as Fluent and ArcGIS Pro: objects have solid bodies in calm
medium tones with a deeper edge, such as gold folders, blue databases
and floppy disks, green maps and red pins.
- Gold is kept for folders and a few gold things; rulers, pencils,
locks, labels and the like are grey, and GeoPackage is a blue box.
- Colourful icons have square corners and sharp angles, and the
objects seen most are drawn in detail like QGIS's own: a floppy disk
with its shutter and label, documents with lines of text, a table with
its header, stacked layers, a printer, a calculator, a layout page and
more.
- Colourful icons keep actions such as zoom, pan and settings in the
theme's icon colour, with at most one coloured detail.
- Documents are white sheets on light themes and soft grey ones on
dark themes, so they never glare.
- Info, help, warning and OK are solid signs.
- The palette icon is white with coloured paints, the filter grey, and
About QGIS a solid blue sign.
- Processing Toolbox groups show a solid red toolbox, as in ArcGIS;
the tools in them keep their tool icon.
- The ribbon's Processing Toolbox button is called Processing and
keeps its tool icon.
- The Processing tool icon is a realistic wrench with a thin handle
and an open jaw.
- Small details on coloured shapes, such as clock hands, the gear on
Project Properties and the lines in Map Tips, always have enough
contrast to read on light and dark themes.
- About QGIS is a blue square sign with the same i as the other info
signs, and the labelling icons show a dark abc on a pointed yellow
label, like QGIS's own.
- The message bar's Show more link is in the theme's link colour, no
longer black on dark themes.
- The Python, brush and plant icons are filled, and the marks in the
zoom magnifiers are dark so they read on the glass.
- QGIS classic: QGIS's own icons, with the rest of the theme.
- Over 350 more QGIS icons are replaced, in Monochrome and Colourful
alike.
- Newly covered: the layout designer's items, attribute form widgets,
shape tools, layer indicators, tasks, certificates, the console and
the georeferencer.
- The icon style changes at once, without restarting QGIS.
- Every icon style stays pixel-sharp and as fast as before.
- Themes are built faster, so changing the theme or the icon style
takes less time.
- Ribbon tabs open at once: their pages are prepared in idle time
after startup, and the tab shown is saved without slowing tab clicks.
- Icon images left by earlier plugin versions are removed from the
profile.
- Colourful: the symbology and labelling icons are coloured, such as
Single Symbol, Categorized, Graduated, Rule-based, No Symbols, Merged
Features, Inverted Polygons and Blocking.
- Colourful: the label settings tabs are coloured, such as Text,
Formatting, Buffer, Mask, Background, Shadow and Rendering.
- Colourful: more objects are coloured, such as layer set operations,
shape tools, the north arrow, a target, a lifebuoy, notes, a chip and
the media controls.
- The 2.5D renderer shows a blue box, the editing pencil is yellow and
Paste shows a wooden clipboard.
- The wrench is drawn with true curves, so it stays sharp and
undistorted at small sizes.
- Blocking shows a clean road barrier, and the status bar's
coordinate/extent toggle keeps the modern icons when clicked.
- The countdown of timed messages shows the theme's pause and play
icons and edge, no longer black on dark themes.
- Fixed an error (QVBoxLayout object is not callable) when opening
other plugins' dialogs that store their layout as an attribute named
layout.

** v1.2 (29.10.2026):
- New settings window in Plugins > QGIS Studio Themes > Settings.
- New ribbon interface, turned on in the settings window under
Interface.
- The ribbon is inspired by the Ribbon Toolbar plugin by Eithan Wes
and Anita Graser (github.com/eithanwes/ribbon_toolbar).
- The ribbon shows every toolbar button and every menu command in
tabs.
- Its tabs: Project, Home, Data, Layer, Edit, Modify, Annotate, View,
Vector, Raster, Mesh, Processing, GPS, Plugins, Settings and Help.
- The ribbon takes the menu bar's place.
- Menu shortcuts keep working, and Alt with a menu's letter still
opens it.
- Ribbon buttons use the modern icons, with large buttons for the main
tools.
- Menu commands on the ribbon show modern icons, also New Report and
those QGIS gives none.
- Manage and Install Plugins is a large button at the start of the
Plugins tab.
- Plugin toolbars, menus and menu commands get their place on the
ribbon, also when added later.
- The ribbon collapses to its tabs with its arrow button or a
double-click on a tab.
- The ribbon's tabs sit on a line, set apart from the page below them.
- The ribbon's page is a soft surface of its own; the current tab
opens into it, its name underlined.
- Ribbon buttons keep clear of the ribbon's top and bottom edges.
- Ribbon tabs show a soft highlight on hover and keep their size and
place in every state.
- Turning the ribbon off brings back the toolbars as they were.
- In ribbon mode the settings window offers only the settings that
apply to it.
- Toolbar names can go above or below the buttons, or left of them
across or vertical.
- Toolbar names can be full, short, or full only where they fit.
- Toolbar names can be turned off.
- Toolbar names are slightly larger, and their size and weight can be
chosen.
- Hovering a toolbar with a short name shows its full name.
- Names below the buttons leave more room above the map.
- Toolbars docked at the window's sides have a line along their inner
edge.
- A toolbar's overflow arrow is a double chevron, unlike drop-down
arrows.
- A dragged toolbar moves as a whole and pushes the toolbars after it.
- Dragging a toolbar over the one before it swaps their places.
- Toolbars no longer stick, overlap or hide buttons while being
dragged.
- Toolbars no longer hide buttons while their row has room for them.
- Dragging a toolbar no longer moves the buttons of its neighbour.
- The Temporal Controller panel shows modern icons.
- The Identify Results panel shows modern icons, also for its identify
modes and settings.
- Layer groups show a group icon instead of a folder.
- Clear buttons, such as in the Python Console and Processing log,
show an eraser.
- The model designer's Inputs list shows a modern plus icon.
- Collapsible sections, such as Layer Rendering, keep the modern
arrow.
- Dialog buttons such as Save and Cancel no longer show old-style
icons on Linux.
- Layer Properties no longer resizes on page changes, so it moves and
responds smoothly.

** v1.1 (24.10.2026):
- Checkboxes in lists and tables, such as renderer categories, match
the theme.
- Selected rows no longer show a blue checkbox or a white frame.
- Option dialogs have a soft line between the page list and the page.
- The search field and page list of option dialogs keep clear of the
edges.
- Options > Processing shows the theme's icons.
- The layout designer's guide buttons show the theme's icons.
- Dialogs grow to fit their contents, so the Layout Manager's rows no
longer touch.
- Panel search fields have a soft edge, so they stand out in every
theme.
- The Debugging/Development Tools panel has one divider line and a
modern QGIS icon.
- Help icons have a larger, easier to read question mark.
- The page list of Layer Properties can be widened on the Diagrams
page too.
- Dialog buttons keep a little space from the window's edges.
- Help buttons look like the other dialog buttons.
- The Graduated renderer's classification modes have new icons.

** v1.0 (23.10.2026):
- Sharper icons, each drawn for its exact pixel size on the pixel
grid.
- One line weight for every icon, in toolbars, menus, panels and
dialogs.
- Calmer badges: a small +, - or check mark; delete keeps its red dot.
- Clearer Identify, SQL, SHP, SpatiaLite, Zoom Full and snapping
icons.
- Fixed distorted icons and lines cut off at the icon edge.
- Disabled icons and arrows are clearly dimmed.
- Browser and Layers panels use the same sharp icons as the toolbars.
- Layers groups and Processing Toolbox groups show a folder icon.
- Processing and Query History entries show modern algorithm icons.
- Fixed missing modern icons in the Processing Toolbox on some builds.
- Selected rows and pages show a white icon, like their text.
- Icons stay sharp when screens, scaling or the icon size change.
- Toolbar icons on large desktop monitors match QGIS's own size.
- Each toolbar shows its name above its buttons.
- Vertical toolbars show a three-letter name on their handle.
- Divider lines separate toolbars, and a line runs under each row.
- Toolbar names use a bolder face that reads well at small sizes.
- Toolbar names are never cut short, and wide toolbars centre their
buttons.
- Empty toolbars shrink to a sliver instead of an empty box.
- Premium Dark uses a softer, lighter grey and one soft text colour.
- Premium Dark has a cleaner green accent.
- Menus, drop-down lists and tooltips are flat, without a drop shadow.
- Fields, drop-down lists, spin boxes and buttons share one height.
- Secondary buttons are tonal, and disabled buttons are outlined.
- A thin accent focus edge replaces the thick focus ring.
- Section titles are semibold in sentence case.
- Dialog page lists have rounded pills and fit all Layer Properties
pages.
- The Labels and Diagrams sub-page lists match the dialog page lists.
- The Labels tabs have soft separators between them.
- The selected Options page stays fully highlighted on hover.
- Unfocused selections keep a faint accent instead of plain grey.
- Checkboxes, radio buttons and slider knobs are no longer clipped.
- Checked menu items show an accent check mark.
- The message bar is a raised card with a stripe in its level's
colour.
- Fields and Actions tables use row lines instead of a grid.
- Attribute tables have no grid lines and a firm header rule.
- Drop-down lists open below the field and show all their items.
- The map canvas has one edge line instead of two.
- Layers, Browser and Processing rows are rounded, full-width pills.
- Tabbed panels switch with a segmented control.
- Code editors use the theme's colours.
- Numbers in spin boxes and editable lists are centred.
- Digits are tabular, so changing numbers no longer jitter.
- UI text is lighter and no longer reads as bold.
- Compact sizes are chosen automatically on low-density monitors.
- Collapsible sections keep the modern arrows.
- Help in dialog button rows is a quiet text button.
- The Plugins dialog checkboxes keep clear of the list border.
- Icons are drawn once and shared by every theme.
- Theme switches no longer redraw any icons.
- Hover, selection changes and resizing run half as much plugin code.
- Toolbar names and lines are painted by Qt without plugin code.
- Large dialogs reopen faster because their icons are remembered.
- Theme updates rewrite only the files that changed.
- Upgrading in a running QGIS keeps the theme and its icons.
- The View menu no longer has the toolbar labels and compact items.
- Fixed unreadable dark text in the expression builder's Feature
picker.
- Fixed the Studio palette and font staying after a plugin reload.
- Fixed the status bar message keeping the previous theme's colour.
- Fixed an outdated stylesheet staying after an update.
- Fixed the stylesheet staying after disabling the plugin.
- Fixed one failed background task stopping later builds.
- Fixed icons left broken after a crash.
- Fixed icons on the wrong rows after leaving a Studio theme.

** v0.9 (18.10.2026):
- Themes renamed with Light or Dark, and saved choices follow.
- A brighter Premium green and stronger low-contrast colours.
- The theme list in Options is sorted alphabetically.
- About 260 more QGIS icons are modernised.
- Icons are lighter and slightly larger, with simple accent-dot
badges.
- Each toolbar shows its name on its handle.
- The main menu is larger and more spaced.
- Panel toolbar icons are larger and panel titles are clearer.
- Browser, Layers and Processing panels share roomier rows.
- The Processing Toolbox shows folder icons for groups.
- Disabled text and icons are clearer in every theme.
- Faster startup, with icons prepared in the background.
- Faster dialogs, menus and tab switching.
- Smoother Processing Toolbox, Browser and theme switching.
- Icons stay modern when plugins are turned on at runtime.
- Icons are sharp on scaled (HiDPI) screens.
- More provider icons are modernised, such as DB Manager and Oracle.
- Dialog page lists fit when collapsed.
- Memory use and theme switching stay stable in long sessions.
- Fonts are smaller and load faster.

** v0.8 (15.10.2026):
- New modern icon set and Inter font.
- Redesigned, cleaner and faster themes.
- Themed message bar.
- Faster startup and icon drawing; native, faster lists and tables.
- Faster theme switching without stale colours.
- Studio Pro renamed to Studio Pro Light.
- Fixed Studio Pro Light being treated as a dark theme (#3).
- Fixed unreadable selected table cells in dark themes.

** v0.7 (26.07.2026):
- New Studio Light Orange theme in Kartoza brand colours.
- New Studio QGIS Light theme in QGIS brand colours.
- Light themes stay light when the desktop is in dark mode.

** v0.6 (13.07.2026):
- Fixed marker symbol grid layout in the Layer Styling panel.

** v0.5 (08.07.2026):
- Fixed Layer Styling layout width and icon alignment.
- Improved panel scrollbar width and hover color.
- Updated icon.

** v0.4 (21.06.2026):
- Fixed operator button icons.
- Fixed layer panel extension button icon.
- Fixed symbol preview widget internal borders.
- Fixed debugging panel vertical menu width.
- Updated icon.

** v0.3 (25.05.2026):
- Updated checkbox appearance.
- Filled dropdown list white margins.

** v0.2 (19.05.2026):
- Fixed arrow visibility.
- Fixed progress bar appearance.

** v0.1 (18.05.2026):
- Initial release.

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