Audacity UI looks ugly in KDE

[onkeltem]

I wonder how to change the default ugly look of the Audacity UI in such a Linux distro as Kubuntu 18.04 and such a desktop manager as KDE.

My eyes want to bleed whenever I start Audacity And I'm pretty sure I have a sort of the default setup, which makes me think, that this affects literally everyone with the same setup as I described above.

This is a screenshot of the Audacity UI to the left and a sample program from KDE ecosystem (Kid3) to the right just to see the difference:

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And if you thought for a second that maybe choosing a Dark theme would do, behold:

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1) the overall drak doesn't fit the system dark;
2) the contrast of the light elements (e.g. text) is to high;
3) the menu, drop-downs and almost all the controls haven't been themed at all.

And in both variants the most troublesome part is definitely the device drop-down lists. Basically they don't fit into UI and you don't really see the full text.

Folks, is there a way to make it look at least a little less ugly? Or at least to make the UI text to score a hit?

Please, forgive me, I do understand that this is an opensource software and so... So I don't blame anybody really It's just that... do you find this acceptable? For years? Why it hasn't been corrected for this many years then? Questions... questions...

[steve]

You could make your own theme. For example, see this topic: viewtopic.php?f=67&t=97814