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As usual Apple has set off a major change in the way we do business. Newspapers, Apps, Slack, everything is going to start supporting dark mode. I think the original way we tackled "custom color schemes" of the OS was too much - we allowed people to set individual colors for everything. Once again apple has simplified that to just light mode and dark mode. And that's how the rest of the industry will finally tackle custom color schemes (no choice but light or dark) and the OS will now dictate that setting automatically much like en-US, es-MX etc..

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Sad to realize that if Slack had a real, native app, most of the conversion would be a simple toggle.

As shown here, Electron app can support this easily: https://medium.com/missive-app/make-your-electron-app-dark-m...

Not really. Slack would have to have a real, native app that used exclusively stock OS controls. I very much doubt they'd do that, so there would still be a lot of work required to implement dark mode.

It's honestly not much dev work at all (took me a couple days on a medium size app). The real time sink is with design, because virtually any custom color you're using in the application will need a dark variant.

Most Cocoa apps use system controls.

Yea and this is purely driven by Apple needs. For e.g on Apple the UI is desturated so dark mode just means go darker. But for e.g on Linux with Arc theme, dark theme has a blueish tint, so the website using dark theme will look bad on Arc theme desktop. We should at least add the option hue & saturation to light/dark setting. Then the app/website would at least fit color-wise with the theme of the OS. But only dark/light is assuming all themes are desaturated which is true for Apple but not necessarily for other platforms

Actually Mac OS was always pretty restrictive in what you could customize - in some ways they've actually doubled the number of choices you now have :)

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