Dark mode planned?

[krabina]

Has anyone ever built a dark mode with chameleon or are there any plans to implement this?

Minerva and Vector skin have this feature and accoring to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Dark_mode a generic solution has downsides.

[WouterRademaker]

You can load an existing Bootstrap theme from somewhere like Bootswatch and tweak it somewhat.

[krabina]

and for the switching you would use https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DarkMode?

[malberts]

If you just want a dark skin then Bootswatch is fine. However, if you want a dark mode toggle, like Vector 2022, then you'll still run into the downsides of a generic solution.

To get a dark mode toggle in Chameleon we will need to:

• Upgrade to Bootstrap 5.3 #385
• Support only MediaWiki 1.43 or later
• Align Bootstrap 5's dark mode design tokens with MediaWiki's

Bootstrap 5 has a built-in dark mode, and MW 1.43's style changes make it easier to implement a custom dark mode. Those two things would be the minimum requirements.