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Boost Dark
Local plugins ::: local_boost_dark
Maintained by
Eduardo Kraus
This plugin adds a dark mode button to the Boost theme (and its child themes), providing an incredible visual experience. Easy to use, it saves user preferences and maintains the lightweight nature of the default theme.
Latest release:
2208 sites
436 downloads
17 fans
Boost Dark Mode is a Moodle plugin that adds a dark mode button to the Boost theme and its child themes, offering a more comfortable visual experience for users, especially in low-light environments.
🚀 Features
- Activates a dark mode button in the Boost theme header.
- Saves the user's dark mode preference using their preferences, ensuring settings remain consistent across browsers.
- Simple and lightweight, with no interference in any standard Boost functionality.
📚 How to Use
- Access your Moodle with the Boost theme activated.
- In the upper corner, click the Dark Mode icon to toggle between light and dark modes.
- The setting will be saved in the user's preferences and automatically applied whenever they return to Moodle.
🐞 Testing
- Tested only on:
- The Moodle Classic theme;
- Boost Union;
- Academi;
- Adaptable.
- German Valero tested with:
📧 Contact
Author: Eduardo Kraus
Website: eduardokraus.com/contact
If you encounter any issues or have suggestions, feel free to open an issue! 😊
Useful links
Contributors
Eduardo Kraus (Lead maintainer)
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Works also with:
https://moodle.org/plugins/theme_academi
https://moodle.org/plugins/theme_boost_union
https://moodle.org/plugins/theme_trema
https://moodle.org/plugins/theme_almondb
Does NOT work with Moove
When I switch to Dark Mode my headings text size changes, and the layout gets narrower slightly too. This is not just altering colours, it's tweaking other CSS too.
Also my left and right drawer backgrounds don't change colour, but the text in them goes from back to a shade of blue/grey. This makes them very low contrast and almost illegible.
And Romeo — There doesn't seem to be a default mode setting yes. I'm disabling it again for now.
Any ideas please?
Thanks!
Jules.
Also, I'm actually using a child of Boost Union which doesn't actually change the CSS at all, just overrides a renderer I needed for quiz questions.
Is there any reason this wouldn't work with a very simple child of Boost Union? (It's built following their boilerplate Boost Union child on Github).
Thanks!
Jules.
We installed local_boost_dark on our Moodle version 4.5.4 and now also on version 5.0.1. We noticed that after the installation, for example, in the Assign activity and the Essay question type, we no longer had the Tiny Editor for online text entry, but only a simple text field. The following error message appeared in the browser via the Developer Console:
tinymce.js:19666
Failed to initialize the editor as the document is not in standards mode. TinyMCE requires standards mode.
After uninstalling the Dark Mode plugin, Tiny worked normally again.
Best regards,
Friedhelm