Include a dark theme in the default image?

[kevincoleman]

I looked back and read through the issue re: adding a more modern theme.

I’m wondering now if it might be widely accepted as a good idea to include a dark theme—even a lightweight one—as part of the default image.

Happy to be shut down. Just thinking many might like it. I’m not even picky about which theme, but just to throw something out there it looks like DarkWolf might be ok.

Thanks in advance for even considering it!

[sushiat]

Yes please, the glare from the phpmyadmin page late at night is a bit much :)

[espilioto]

Oh man, this would be great! <3

[Skylinar]

+1

[Goldsucher]

+1

[miguelangelcdm]

+1

[williamdes]

We have this in mind, it requires some team discussion but for me it's okay to add one more theme by default (Only for Docker users)

[smphayward]

+1 on this. Just installed phpMyAdmin for the very first time (using Docker) and the first thing I looked for was how to set dark theme.

The older I get, the more light themes hurt my eyes.

[beeyev]

I created a custom docker image which is automatically built on top of the official phpmyadmin fpm-alpine.
It already includes webserver and two official dark themes.

Docker hub: https://hub.docker.com/r/beeyev/phpmyadmin-lightweight
Github repo

[kevincoleman]

@beeyev That’s awesome! I wonder what the accessibility might be of turning this into a proper PR for the core team. Maybe then it’d just get rolled into a version release?

[williamdes]

@beeyev That’s awesome! I wonder what the accessibility might be of turning this into a proper PR for the core team. Maybe then it’d just get rolled into a version release?

@ibennetch @MauricioFauth what do you think between:

• Adding some custom themes on container start by an env
• Adding this boodark theme in the next 5.2
• Adding boodark to the Docker image only

[MauricioFauth]

@williamdes Is there a way to add a custom theme to an image?

Doesn't makes much sense to me to ship a theme only on Docker. And I don't like the idea of ship a new theme with 5.2.

[williamdes]

@williamdes Is there a way to add a custom theme to an image?

Yes, mounting it directly in the themes folder.

Doesn't makes much sense to me to ship a theme only on Docker.

yeah, that feels weird

And I don't like the idea of ship a new theme with 5.2.

I agree

So one of the alternatives I was thinking of would be to provide some ENV to install themes from our website on container start. Or copy them from a folder (that that's not the best)

[MauricioFauth]

Makes sense to build an extra image with more themes or an new image with only the theme, that can be attached to the main image? (I don't have much experience with Docker)