[Request] Dark mode

[dismalangelParticipant]

Hello,

Is it possible to request for a dark/night mode? Since the ui is very bright when playing at night

Thank you

[MiqobotKeymaster]

Would you please clarify your request a little?
What UI do you mean exactly, Miqobot’s main window or 3D Radar overlay?

[Carl ArbogastParticipant]

I think they meant Miqobot’s main window.

I was going to ask this request as well. The reason is, when you use a secondary monitor with Miqobot window on it, the plain white is really unpleasant, when everything else is darker, it’s like a lamp pointed right at you, and it’s annoying.

It’s the same reason why for example people asked for Dark modes to creators of XIV related web sites, because we have those open all the time on a secondary window, and they are brighter than the room, brighter than the game, not really pleasant.

If you choose to do a Dark mode for Miqobot, please consider not making it pure black, this is ugly and unpleasant as well. I have no idea why gigantic companies like Microsoft failed at creating a Dark mode of their UI for Windows 10 for example, they made it pure black, instead of several dark greys, it’s ugly and unprofessional.

The best way to do a Dark mode is to use a dark grey for the main background, and several other different dark greys for all the other elements, to make them stand out a bit.
As for fonts, no pure white, just light greys.

I was going to ask this request within another one related to the UI, I’m gonna create another topic for this purpose.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 1 month ago by  Carl Arbogast.

[dismalangelParticipant]

Carl Arbogast wrote:

I think they meant Miqobot’s main window.

I was going to ask this request as well. The reason is, when you use a secondary monitor with Miqobot window on it, the plain white is really unpleasant, when everything else is darker, it’s like a lamp pointed right at you, and it’s annoying.

It’s the same reason why for example people asked for Dark modes to creators of XIV related web sites, because we have those open all the time on a secondary window, and they are brighter than the room, brighter than the game, not really pleasant.

If you choose to do a Dark mode for Miqobot, please consider not making it pure black, this is ugly and unpleasant as well. I have no idea why gigantic companies like Microsoft failed at creating a Dark mode of their UI for Windows 10 for example, they made it pure black, instead of several dark greys, it’s ugly and unprofessional.

The best way to do a Dark mode is to use a dark grey for the main background, and several other different dark greys for all the other elements, to make them stand out a bit.
As for fonts, no pure white, just light greys.

I was going to ask this request within another one related to the UI, I’m gonna create another topic for this purpose.

This. Sorry my english isn’t so good so didnt know how to put it out well enough. But this is what i meant for dark mode.

Thanks Carl for the explaination

[MiqobotKeymaster]

Understood 🙂

Current UI of Miqobot uses default Windows settings.
It means you can install a different color scheme on system level, and it will affect Miqobot’s appearance. You can use it to adjust UI colors to your liking.

And of course, we already have several UI layouts in progress with system-independent color scheme. We plan to implement a better design with customizable colors and fonts as soon as we complete the top priority feature pack.
Thank you for your request!

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