Dark mode: Program start and end should be dark, too.

[merlinuwe]

Thanks for your great program, which I use since a few days.

I work in dark mode. When I start the program, I see this:

Ouch.

When I end the program, there is also a (shorter) white flash.

Is it possible, to darken these situations, both?

[devvaannsh]

Hey, wait a sec. This should be super quick, like barely noticeable. How long does the white screen stay for you?

[merlinuwe]

Hey, wait a sec. This should be super quick, like barely noticeable. How long does the white screen stay for you?

Thanks for your very fast reply. I think 1-2 seconds.

(The problem is because of my eyes are light sensible. I work in the dark and always use dark mode.)

[devvaannsh]

I don’t think turning it into a dark screen is possible since it’s Tauri (the framework Phoenix is built on) handling the loading. But I’ll still look into it and see if we can do something.

[devvaannsh]

I understand your issue. We'll definitely look into it with utmost priority and hopefully come up with a solution. ⚡

[abose]

Was looking into a fix, and it appears that it will be tricky as this is an underlying issue with tauri which is our main UI engine.
See tauri-apps/tauri#1564 , they have marked it as wont fix and closed it apparently. The hacks described is to hide the window till first render, which may be perceived as slow app boot. This could be a bit tricky to solve, let me try this out and see how bad the load speed is affected.

[abose]

The hack slows down the app start by about 250ms in our test bench which usually boots up in under 20ms which marks a noticeable slow down to first paint. So we may not be able to do this for all users. But it will fix the problem. Maybe we can add it under a flag so that it can be optionally enabled. @merlinuwe is half second startup slowdown acceptable trade off with the problem you are facing?

[merlinuwe]

The hack slows down the app start by about 250ms in our test bench which usually boots up in under 20ms which marks a noticeable slow down to first paint. So we may not be able to do this for all users. But it will fix the problem. Maybe we can add it under a flag so that it can be optionally enabled. @merlinuwe is half second startup slowdown acceptable trade off with the problem you are facing?

Sure a half second is ok. And optionally switching it on or off, too. Thank you so much for investigating.

[abose]

We have moved this to high priority as this is an unacceptable use case for light sensitive users. Fix will be available in the next release scheduled for mid-end march.

Fix is now being tracked in #2149 . Please track progress there.

[merlinuwe]

We have moved this to high priority as this is an unacceptable use case for light sensitive users. Fix will be available in the next release scheduled for mid-end march.

Fix is now being tracked in #2149 . Please track progress there.

Thank you soo much.