How to use the 'designs'

[jmafc]

I just upgraded to Debian trixie and now adminer (5.2.1) has a generally dark blue background with letters in light blue, which is not very readable (it used to be black letters on a white background). I couldn't find any menu options on the interface to change the colors, so I searched and found a StackOverflow thread where someone suggested using a CSS file placed in the same directory as adminer.php. But then I found the /usr/share/adminer/designs directory where there is a bunch of directories with README.md (each apparently with a link to a screenshot png) and adminer.css files. I finally figured out that I could copy one of the adminer.css files to /usr/share/adminer/adminer/static/default.css and that would actually change the interface. I tried a few but none of them look like the old one and are not too readable either. Is there a way to go back to the old B&W scheme? If not, is there a way to easily view each of the 25 existing designs?

[jmafc]

A couple of additional comments. First is that some of the screenshot.png files do not reflect the actual designs (those screenshots also show adminer 3.x or 4.x version numbers). Second is that I found a somewhat reasonable design in rmsoft: many of the others, used inverted colors for alternate table rows, making those rows unreadable; whereas rmsoft uses a light-colored highlight on the row over which the cursor hovers. However, rmsoft pushes the left hand panel, e.g., the listing of tables, to the bottom of the page.

[vivamaxwin1-hash]

Same experience here after upgrading. The dark blue background isn’t very readable for me either. Would be nice if the old black-on-white scheme could be included again as one of the default designs.

[jmafc]

Another annoying issue is that when one or more rows were shown, one could request sorting in descending or ascending order by clicking on a column header name. Now there are separate square "icons" that are placed below the header names, partially or even totally occluding the data in the first and perhaps only row, so you have to click on the "edit pencil" (if it's visible!) to see it. The "icons" have an arrow with a "descending" tooltip and an equal (?) sign with a "Search" tooltip but I haven't been able to figure out its purpose or behavior.