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#33690 closed New feature (fixed)

Allow disabling admin module dark theme

Reported by:	nv35	Owned by:	Sarah Abderemane
Component:	contrib.admin	Version:	4.0
Severity:	Normal	Keywords:	dark theme
Cc:	Sarah Abderemane, Jeff Triplett, Florian Demmer	Triage Stage:	Ready for checkin
Has patch:	yes	Needs documentation:	no
Needs tests:	no	Patch needs improvement:	no
Easy pickings:	no	UI/UX:	yes

Description

Since #31259, dark theme had been added to admin interface and enabled by default to follow OS environment theme.
Some sites may want to have the possibility to keep the light theme for all users, ie. for compatibility with custom forms/views/charts... that don't render well under dark theme.
Having possibility to disable dark theme for the whole admin site would be a good start.

There are already some stackoverflow questions about that, and multiple django plugins to do that. They basically just force light theme in css, while a more evolved one stores user preference in database.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67193106/disable-prefers-color-scheme-dark-in-django-admin
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68159768/disable-dark-mode-in-django-admin
https://pypi.org/project/django-non-dark-admin/
https://pypi.org/project/django-light/

Change History (17)

comment:1 by Carlton Gibson, 2 years ago

Cc:	Sarah Abderemane Jeff Triplett added
Triage Stage:	Unreviewed → Accepted

This keeps coming up so we should likely accept the change here.

There's a related PR for djangoproject.com https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/pull/1158 — whatever switch we develop for there should be applied here too.

There was some discussion on Twitter where the consensus seemed to be to Follow the system setting, but allow an override — that should guide implementation.
(e.g. https://twitter.com/webology/status/1514760882605109276)

comment:2 by Sarah Abderemane, 2 years ago

Owner:	changed from nobody to Sarah Abderemane
Status:	new → assigned

I have done that on the related PR, it's taking the default os preference and there is a button to force the switch over system preference. I just need to do some improvements suggested in the PR.

I add the user preference in the local storage for djangoproject.com but for the admin it can be in the database or same as djangoproject.com, in local storage or other suggestion.
What do you think ?

As the admin has already a dark theme, I can handle it, before the change for djangoproject.com and adjust if needed.

comment:3 by Carlton Gibson, 2 years ago

Hi Sarah. I think local storage is fine (great even). Thanks!

It'll be a while before djangoproject.com is able to use it directly, but if we were able to put the JS for the toggle in a single script, folks could add it to their pages to use site-wide, and not every Django project would need to re-invent this same thing... 🤔

(We could copy to djangoproject.com, to remove once we get to e.g. Django 4.2).

Last edited 2 years ago by Carlton Gibson (previous) (diff)

comment:4 by nv35, 2 years ago

Hi, thanks for your replies. I guess there are 2 different features that are missing :

possibility to disable dark theme completely on a site
give the user the possibility to switch between dark and light, and store the choice

I've created ticket initially for the first one, perhaps a second ticket have to be created for the other? Thanks

comment:5 by Florian Demmer, 2 years ago

Cc:	Florian Demmer added

comment:6 by Sarah Abderemane, 2 years ago

Hi nv35,

I've created ticket initially for the first one, perhaps a second ticket have to be created for the other?

No need to create another ticket, in my opinion, it's only the fact that your ticket involved to be sure that it will fit everyone.

give the user the possibility to switch between dark and light, and store the choice

By doing this, you will have a way to disable the dark theme, even if you have set your os preference on the dark theme, and the theme change will be visible to everyone on the admin.