I'm using pgAdmin 4 on Linux (X11, Plasma, desktop mode, Debian, obtained from pgAdmin's custom APT repository). Naturally, because I value my eyesight and sanity, I use the dark mode. Recently, it has started doing something horrible:
1. Every time you open any new "view" inside the application, it flashes the screen bright white before rendering the new page. For example if you click the "Query Tool" button. It happens every single time, and was sadly not fixed in 9.3 which was just released and which I was hopeful for. This drives me insane and it didn't use to happen.
2. The program doesn't respect my system settings to not blink the caret in text inputs. It keeps blinking even though I've set it to not blink (be fixed as visible) in the KDE settings. This "animation" makes it impossible for me to use the program; I'm forced to write any query etc. in a separate Kate text document (where the caret doesn't blink) and then paste it into pgAdmin 4, because having the pgAdmin 4 window up and working in it becomes impossible due to this "Caret from Hell".
I've looked all over the GUI settings and searched online for some hidden config option to turn this infernal blinking off, but there is just nothing (that I can find after spending countless hours). Please enable this somehow so that people whose brains will never be compatible with stuff moving around or animating on the screen can also use this crucial software. It has overall massively improved in recent years, but these two things sadly really drag it down again.
PS: I'm aware that pgAdmin 4 uses Chromium which uses some custom rendering engine from Google, which would maybe explain why it doesn't care about any of my system settings, but nevertheless they cannot have been sadistic enough to *hardcode* the cursor to blink? Words cannot describe how distracting and stressful that is.
PS 2: I'm sending this to this e-mail list because you use Github for filing "Issues", and Github doesn't allow account registration ever since they sold out to Microsoft. (No, I'm not making that up. It's been the same every single time I've tried over the years. It consistently refuses, like all major websites today.)
I'm not even sure I'll be able to respond to anything here. I might have to passively read any responses through the web archive depending on how many further hurdles there will be to actually posting/sending this...
