Setting theme with config.theme does not do anything

[4r73m190r0s]

README files says that

Themes can be changed in three ways:
Setting config.theme to the desired theme.
...

So I did this in my config using Lazy as package manager:

return {
  {
    "rebelot/kanagawa.nvim",
    enabled = true,
    lazy = false,
    priority = 1000,
    opts = {
      theme = "dragon"
    },
  },
}

But this did not load kanagawa dragon?

[kada49]

I was investigating this aswell. This config option only saves theme = "dragon". When you i.e. try to set the colorscheme to kanagawa with require("kanagawa").load() or :colorscheme kanagawa it loads the colorscheme defined in config.background, not actually the theme you set. And since config.background is set by default, config.theme is never used.
in my opinion the theme config option has no purpose if it does not override the default one (config.background is set by default so you have to override that one too).
As a workaround you can set background = "" in the config.

[4r73m190r0s]

Any update on this?