Re: is there a plug and play dark skin for VW9.1 apps

I am making progress Charles, 

I correctly pinned it under the Windows Emulated skin now.
But there is still a whole lot of details to deal with.
Give me some time.

https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.dropbox.com/s/s6atqnky3nnd16q/screenDarSKin2.png?dl=0__;!!DZ3fjg!vvmTHtbiPL_qzhUCWIl25HtWaf3-qC-TtCcn3QIvzZprr-FRIvomAgt-KI4n3p3uM4e32dw$ 

Btw. Your link is great, 

Maarten,


> On 16 Mar 2022, at 16:59, [email protected] wrote:
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> Maarten:
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> Softer on the eye than stock for sure, although obviously there are still readability issues as per your pic.
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> To be clear, by dark mode what I mean is what is prescribed by Material Design principles , dark mode can be based on any “darkish” color other than black , specifically what is documented here: 
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> Dark theme - Material Design <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://material.io/design/color/dark-theme.html__;!!DZ3fjg!rH43HffdWZVydn8s7nu6nJ5uUG3XNXEu1DRJbgxSAxje8FmoMIMkNXD5dLwErhKMaH_8Nao$>
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> Getting something that is at least close to this would be great and really not something that any individual VW customer should have to do i.e. given how prevalent and free these types of UI tech are e.g. JS, Flutter , Python KivyMD, JavaFX and that’s just mentioning the ones that I have actually built apps with.
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> It would be particular helpful for us especially in our sales process.
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> I happen to think that VW’s widget set looks pretty good, there are some widgets that would be nice to have but its overall complete enough and we have tweaked in what was not there and I do mean in 9.x .
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> What is missing (for now)  is a competent, serious, professional dark theme.
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> There’s of course the option to diversify the tech stack a bit and use something like Python KivyMD to create thin , dumb but pretty UI clients and with very smart Smalltalk counterparts. 
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> There might be valued added there since those ecosystems are richer in analytic and visualization libraries in general. If its done just right I won’t miss my debugger as much 😊
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> Let’s get on that balloon and look around 😊
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> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Maarten Mostert
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> Woke up early started something
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> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.dropbox.com/s/9zh7ff08yxkawg4/darkskin.png?dl=0__;!!DZ3fjg!vvmTHtbiPL_qzhUCWIl25HtWaf3-qC-TtCcn3QIvzZprr-FRIvomAgt-KI4n3p3uNFBzF2A$  <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.dropbox.com/s/9zh7ff08yxkawg4/darkskin.png?dl=0__;!!DZ3fjg!p2SvIwN-ZfindfWn5nxXK5cQ3cp_feEAF8r1sxqfjdU2pYK0cPt2qa2QrRbcxssOTj_r_y8$>
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>> Anything that I can just grab and turn on ? as is possible with most UI frameworks nowadays?
>> We are getting complaints from customers who want this yesterday and want us to spend no time on it because they have a ton of other stuff they also want.
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>> Thanks
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>> -Charles