@Friendica Support i really wish there was another option for having a dark theme in #Friendica. i would like having a multi-shade black / charcoal page, with lavender / violet accents, but so far have not found a way to achieve it (note, for many years i used to use the #Stylus AddOn, with which i created numerous custom themes for many sites, but a year ago i disabled it & others as part of my desire to begin minimising all non-essential AO attack surfaces). Though in many ways using #DarkReader for Friendica is quite good, overall i tend to eschew it being on for this site, coz it hides that handy temporary shading highlight of posts in a thread for which a Notification was received.
The small number of current dark themes offer me a rather unappealing colour choice.
The custom theme option initially excited me, til i realised, afaict, it is based on the Light theme, with no Dark theme option, so that all the dialogue boxes & dropdown menus remain eye-piercingly bright white, that hurts my eyes. The least-worst i could conjure was
{"nav_bg":"#54207b","nav_icon_color":"#f3d0f1","link_color":"#5b38a6","background_color":"#5b4d71","background_image":"","contentbg_transp":"42"}but as mentioned, too much blinding white remains.
inevitably then, i keep returning to the so-called Black theme, but it is... quite boring. the entire page is simply all a single "shiny" black tone, with my chosen accent relieving the monotony. compare this to the so-called Dark themes, to see the difference; they use different shades of the base colour, which is more visually appealing, creating a "panelled" effect.
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•Droppie [opensoc]
•Tealk
•@Droppie [opensoc] Because I wasn't satisfied with the color theme, I created a GNOME variant.
If theming weren't so complicated, I'd like to create a theme from scratch that's more dynamic for the end user.
https://codeberg.org/Tealk/friendica-frio-gnome
Droppie [opensoc]
•well well well, i have synthesised a pretty comfy workaround. the basic problem ofc remains, which is why i call this a workaround not solution.
- my daily browser is :firefoxnightly: , hence can/does use the Mozilla-created AddOn #SideView (which tbh i always misremember as being #OpenInSidebar)
- i have reverted my #Friendica Settings Display theme to the default Light [ow ow ouch, my poor eyes!]
- i have re-enabled the AO #DarkReader for this site (eyes go phew!)
- once again now, per my OP, if i access my received Friendica Notifications in the main page, Dark Reader entirely h
... show morewell well well, i have synthesised a pretty comfy workaround. the basic problem ofc remains, which is why i call this a workaround not solution.
fwiw.
Droppie [opensoc]
•@Raroun @Friendica Support within the past fortnight i discovered a new theme has been added,
gnome, which is a much nicer alternative to the existing dark & black themes. despite me being a kde plasma fangirl, heehee. thanks for it.one minor quibble with it is that unlike all the other themes, this one does not readily highlight the new items in the Notifications menu dropdown, instead subtly using just the theme's accent colour at the extremities. that works, but IMO it would still be desired to assign an obvious contrast background colour to the new items, like the other themes.
given clearly i am wishlist-dreaming atm, one other desirable enhancement would be to let users pick their own custom accent colour, for this & other themes.
#friendica #opensocialspace