[client] Add light mode with system, light, and dark theme options - #7344
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe desktop client adds persisted light, dark, and system theme preferences. It resolves OS appearance changes, updates window backgrounds and native window appearance, initializes the frontend theme before first paint, adds localized theme strings, and propagates session-expiration deadlines. ChangesDesktop theme support
Session expiration deadline
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~30 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Theme selection can briefly leave native window chrome out of sync with the frontend when the operating-system appearance changes during an update, and rapid preference notifications may delay convergence. The PR is otherwise mergeable with explicit owner awareness of this bounded visual consistency risk. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant OS as OS appearance
participant Theme as services.Theme
participant Store as preferences.Store
participant WindowManager as Window manager
participant Frontend as Frontend
OS->>Theme: ThemeChanged
Theme->>Store: Read current theme
Theme->>WindowManager: Apply effective appearance
Theme->>Frontend: Emit SystemThemeChanged
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Full details: Description checkExplanation The description explains the feature, implementation scope, testing status, and documentation decision. However, the required issue ticket or approved discussion link is missing for this behavior-changing feature. ✨ Finishing Touches 💡 2📝 Generate docstrings 💡
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In `@client/ui/frontend/index.html`:
- Around line 22-26: Update the pre-paint theme guard in the initialization
logic so the System mode derives dark mode directly from
window.matchMedia("(prefers-color-scheme: dark)").matches, without prioritizing
the cached nb-system-dark value. Leave later Go event synchronization unchanged.
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<file name="client/ui/services/windowappearance_windows.go">
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P2: When the user forces Dark while Windows itself is in Light mode, `w32.SetTheme` overrides the earlier per-window dark opt-in because its menu helper gates dark mode on the OS preference. Apply the forced per-window mode after `SetTheme`, and ensure native menus use the forced mode rather than the OS-only gate.</violation>
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| if w32.AllowDarkModeForWindow != nil { | ||
| w32.AllowDarkModeForWindow(h, dark) | ||
| } | ||
| w32.SetTheme(h, dark) |
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P2: When the user forces Dark while Windows itself is in Light mode, w32.SetTheme overrides the earlier per-window dark opt-in because its menu helper gates dark mode on the OS preference. Apply the forced per-window mode after SetTheme, and ensure native menus use the forced mode rather than the OS-only gate.
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<comment>When the user forces Dark while Windows itself is in Light mode, `w32.SetTheme` overrides the earlier per-window dark opt-in because its menu helper gates dark mode on the OS preference. Apply the forced per-window mode after `SetTheme`, and ensure native menus use the forced mode rather than the OS-only gate.</comment>
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+ if w32.AllowDarkModeForWindow != nil {
+ w32.AllowDarkModeForWindow(h, dark)
+ }
+ w32.SetTheme(h, dark)
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+ chrome := microsoftWindowsLightTheme
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115-115: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winUse the resolved appearance for the native update.
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applyresolvessystemDarkat Line 106. Line 115 makessetWindowAppearanceread the Windows appearance again. If the OS appearance changes between these reads, one update can set the background and frontend event to one theme but queue native chrome for the other theme. Pass the resolved appearance to the Windows path, or make its system branch use the already stored effective appearance.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@client/ui/services/theme.go`:
- Line 115: Update apply and the Windows setWindowAppearance path to reuse the
already resolved effective appearance, including the systemDark result, instead
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P2: On a light-system first launch, this can select dark chrome for a window created by the concurrent `ApplicationStarted` welcome handler. `effectiveDark` starts true and is corrected only by the theme startup handler, so resolve the platform theme before creating startup windows or serialize these handlers.</violation>
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| // Both CustomTheme slots hold one colour set for the same reason. | ||
| func MicrosoftWindowsAppearanceOptions() application.WindowsWindow { | ||
| theme, chrome := application.Light, microsoftWindowsLightTheme | ||
| if effectiveDark.Load() { |
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P2: On a light-system first launch, this can select dark chrome for a window created by the concurrent ApplicationStarted welcome handler. effectiveDark starts true and is corrected only by the theme startup handler, so resolve the platform theme before creating startup windows or serialize these handlers.
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<comment>On a light-system first launch, this can select dark chrome for a window created by the concurrent `ApplicationStarted` welcome handler. `effectiveDark` starts true and is corrected only by the theme startup handler, so resolve the platform theme before creating startup windows or serialize these handlers.</comment>
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- theme = application.Light
- dark = microsoftWindowsLightTheme
+ theme, chrome := application.Light, microsoftWindowsLightTheme
+ if effectiveDark.Load() {
+ theme, chrome = application.Dark, microsoftWindowsDarkTheme
}
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P3: This GTK3 file duplicates the complete implementation in `appappearance_linux_gtk4.go`, so future fixes to GTK theme ownership or memory handling can diverge between builds. Keep the GTK-specific pkg-config declarations in thin platform files and share the wrapper logic.</violation>
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| //go:build linux && cgo && gtk3 && !android && !ios | |||
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P3: This GTK3 file duplicates the complete implementation in appappearance_linux_gtk4.go, so future fixes to GTK theme ownership or memory handling can diverge between builds. Keep the GTK-specific pkg-config declarations in thin platform files and share the wrapper logic.
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+import "unsafe"
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+func gtkThemeName() string {
+ c := C.nbGetGtkThemeName()
+ if c == nil {
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Great work! I think we can merge this for RC.
✗ uk: 458 keys (expected 463) Not part of this PR, but the dropdowns seems inconsistent with our regular dropdown. This is the correct one (slighlty lighter bg, rounded corners on every item, checkmark instead of dot) I think you used the tailwind slate or gray color schema, can we try something with less blueish hue maybe the zinc or neutral and see how this looks in comparison to the current? Can and probably should be done at the last step. |
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Adds a light theme to the desktop client, which is currently dark only. A new Theme setting (System / Light / Dark) lives in Settings, General, defaulting to System so existing users follow their OS appearance.
Known Limitation: On Linux, system these switching fails on some GTK versions. In Wails both Env.IsDarkMode() and the linux:SystemThemeChanged event are unreliable, in a different way on each backend shared by the GTK3 and GTK4 builds. More information here: netbirdio/wails#4
The core change makes the
nb-graypalette theme aware: the Tailwind scale now resolves through CSS variables, with a light ramp on:rootand the original dark ramp under.dark. Because existingnb-gray-*classes resolve through those variables, most of the UI follows the active theme without per component changes. Dark mode is intentionally unchanged.Changes:
themefield in the UI preferences store with aPreferences.SetThemebinding, following the existing viewMode patternservices.Theme: keeps native window background colours in step with the resolved theme, listens for OS appearance changes via WailsThemeChanged, and exposesSystemDarkMode()to the frontendThemeContexton the React side: toggles the.darkclass, syncs across windows through the preferences changed event, and mirrors state to localStorage for a pre paint guard inindex.html(no wrong theme flash on launch)Mirrors the dashboard light mode work in netbirdio/dashboard#658 so both UIs share the same ramp values.
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