UX: Have a dark theme

[fdw]

I could not find a truly dark theme (light on dark), but I think it would be nice to have one.

[lastzero]

Moonlight and Onyx are our darkest themes currently. Many of our UI elements invert their contrast when selected. That makes it difficult to just use dark colors. We also have to change this logic, otherwise you have a black font on black background. All in all, this wasn't easy and important enough to delay our release. Might do this later though, when there is time and funding.

[lastzero]

That's how PhotoPrism looks in a dark desktop environment. The Onyx theme is pretty much dark and grey already, nothing that burns your eyes. Most "bright" screen area is covered by pictures. Those are not under our control... We've intentionally kept the UI grey to avoid bias in terms of darkness, brightness, or colors (unless you've chosen to use the Raspberry theme).

[lastzero]

As dark as it gets for now 😎

[fdw]

Thanks for your efforts!

My idea was to have a theme that is really dark around the photos, as that often makes them look better. But I agree that it's not an important topic :)

[lastzero]

In fact, I've seen screenshots of users who had it all dark... maybe they've applied a patch locally and don't use other themes to avoid contrast issues (as mentioned above).

[alexislefebvre]

It would be awesome to have a theme that rely on the user's settings to enable dark mode automatically at night, see prefers-color-scheme. It could be added to current themes.