Better night mode

[stek29]

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It would be nice to use "night mode" as a way to have two different themes installed.

Suggested behaviour & Steps to reproduce

• User installs custom theme #1
• He enables night mode (TDesktop's built in night mode theme gets activated)
• He installs custom theme #2
• Now when he disables night mode he gets theme #1, and when he enables it he gets theme #2

So night mode would be independent theme "profile" with different default theme, completely independent from light mode.

[john-preston]

@stek29 Yes, I thought about that. This is a serious task.

[tyl3r]

You guys can make it simple, just let the user choice for both default themes (normal and night mode) in a easy way, it would be nice to add 2 additional text buttons or 2 images (⚪️/⚫️ or 🌞 / 🌚) when you preview a theme, the buttons act for set as default: default theme / night mode theme, then in preferences just rewrite the options, remove the actual "user default color theme" for something like "default theme: X (Restore to default)" and "night mode theme: Y (Restore to default)", then the night mode switch just change between the 2 defined themes. Hope you like the idea.

[andreyorst]

I wonder if there is an ability to make both light and dark variant in a single theme. Something like in GNOME for example. In GNOME 3 there are two css files, named gtk.css and gtk-dark.css. User can enable or disable dark theme variant in settings by toggling the switch. Some applications, that support dark mode use gtk-dark.css by default and fallback to gtk.css if there is none.

If telegram will support such thing, there will be no need to set two different themes, a switch will remain in settings if user theme supports nightmode. Or telegram could switch to default night mode theme if user theme don't specify it's own night color scheme.

Yes, this reuires theme creators to add dark mode in their themes, but I think that if a single person designs a theme, night mode should share same style, only adapted to be dark. At least it is a common practice in gtk theming world.

[IgorKrupenja]

Was this closed because this feature is implemented in the upcoming release?

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[Johnnynator]

It should already be in the alpha release

[IgorKrupenja]

@Johnnynator Great, thanks!

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