Powertoys: Dark Mode: Settings

Created on 5 Sep 2019  路  14Comments  路  Source: microsoft/PowerToys

Summary of the new feature/enhancement

Add the system theme mode.

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

Loads the windows ui theme mode.

Idea-Enhancement Product-Settings Resolution-Fix-Committed

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Simple theme creation should be standard across all these apps with ability to edit colors using HUE/RGB/HTML and saving theme to a file, with a simple location or double click to use. I propose for promotion purposes that MS would do well to officially make a Dracula theme in Power Toys to stand out.

https://github.com/dracula/dracula-theme

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Are you asking for this in FZ, WKSG, settings or something else? Thanks

Because it's a web app inside Electron (or something similar), querying @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) should be enough

It should respect the users setting of Light or Dark Mode

The only UI is the settings, so i mean settings.

It should respect the users setting of Light or Dark Mode

With CSS Variables and the media query, that shouldn't be a problem to implement

Simple theme creation should be standard across all these apps with ability to edit colors using HUE/RGB/HTML and saving theme to a file, with a simple location or double click to use. I propose for promotion purposes that MS would do well to officially make a Dracula theme in Power Toys to stand out.

https://github.com/dracula/dracula-theme

Yay! Dark theme for Settings with version 0.12.0.0. Now, if only there was a dark theme for the Fancy Zones UI...

@lucknaumann
a dark theme for the FancyZones UI is coming soon ;)

Can we also get dark mode for the title bar?
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We are working on it, it was reported in https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/732

One more issue about dark mode, many setting buttons are always blue background and black foreground:
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can we also refine the dark mode color?

Small interactive elements are supposed to have a desaturated accent in dark theme so that's fine

We'll be be fixed with settings v2 since we'll be directly utilizing brushes from the OS

It's not fully supported in 0.18 https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/releases

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