Slack Theme Collection
Beautify your Slack application from a list of popular themes!!!
Currently works only for Mac OS, Windows and Linux non-SNAP (Marketplace)
Theme List:
- Material Oceanic
- Material Darker
- Material Palenight
- Material Lighter
- Material DeepOcean
- Monokai Pro
- Arc Dark
- Dracula
- GitHub
- Atom One Dark
- Atom One Light
- Solarized Dark
- Solarized Light
- Night Owl
- Light Owl
Pledge
If you like this plugin, you can buy me a beer (or a coffee, or something else) using PayPal
You can also support this theme by subscribing to the Material Theme OpenCollective. [Become a sponsor]
Backers
Thank you to all our backers!
Check also : http://www.material-theme.com/docs/support-us/
Sponsors
Support this project by becoming a sponsor. Your logo will show up here with a link to your website. [Become a sponsor]
Installation
Global installation (works anywhere)
- Run
npm install -g @mallowigi/slack-themes
in a terminal - Run the command
mtslack
- PROFIT!!!
-
You will be prompted with a menu with two options:
- Apply Theme
- Remove Theme
-
Select Apply Theme to be prompted with a list of themes to choose with.
-
Open or Restart (with Cmd-Q) Slack
-
?????
-
PROFIT!!!!!!!
From npm
- Clone this repository
- Install NodeJS if you didn't do it yet (https://nodejs.org/en/download/)
- Run
npm install
- Run
npm run apply
- Select Apply in the menu, then select a theme from the predefined themes.
- Open or Restart (with Cmd-Q) Slack
- ??????
- PROFIT!!!!!!
Revert to the default theme
The best way to revert to the default theme would be to use the backup copy you made and overwrite the patched Slack.app
There is also a Remove Theme
option in the menu but it is less robust.
Slack Tweaks (Beta)
Since version 2.0 you can also profit from a bunch of Slack Tweaks to make the application more enjoyable.
Enabling these tweaks create a new icon in the Slack Toolbar to toggle the desired tweaks.
More will come later!
Note Currently switching between Slack Workspaces would restore the default behavior, e.g. the tweaks not showing in the app.
You can forcibly relaunch them by pressing Cmd+D (Alt-D on Windows/Linux).
Note:
These tweaks are currently in a very early release. It can causes some problems, especially every time Slack updates their application.
Development
Building styles
This project consists in two parts:
- The CLI, used for applying the styles
- The Styles, written with Sass (Node-sass)
The cli is found in the lib
directory while the styles are found in the styles
directory.
Then run npm run styles
or npm run debugStyles
to compile the scss files in dist/slack.min.css
or dist/slack.css
Apply the styles
Using the WebApp
Open Slack on the browser. It has the useful Developer Tools available to them so you can debug with ease.
To test your CSS, install a Stylish-like extension (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylish-custom-themes-for/fjnbnpbmkenffdnngjfgmeleoegfcffe?hl=en) then create a new style for slack and paste the CSS inside and save.
You should already see all your styles applied. Please note that there are some differences between the web app and the native app.
Using the Electron app
First of all install and run a web server
npm i -g http-server
http-server .
You can now have access to the current project directory. Particularly the dist/slack.css
where the magic happens.
Then changes the url in lib/consts.js
to point to http://localhost:8080/dist/slack.css
to use your local styles.
Instead of launching Slack normally, you'll need to enable developer mode to be able to inspect things.
-
Mac:
export SLACK_DEVELOPER_MENU=true; open -a /Applications/Slack.app
-
Linux: (todo)
-
Windows: (todo)
Live Reload
In addition to running the required modifications, you will likely want to add auto-reloading:
const cssPath = 'http://localhost:8080/dist/slack.css';
window.reloadCss = function() {
const webviews = document.querySelectorAll(".TeamView webview");
fetch(cssPath + '?zz=' + Date.now(), {cache: "no-store"}) // qs hack to prevent cache
.then(response => response.text())
.then(css => {
console.log(css.slice(0,50));
webviews.forEach(webview =>
webview.executeJavaScript(`
(function() {
let styleElement = document.querySelector('style#slack-custom-css');
styleElement.innerHTML = \`${css}\`;
})();
`)
)
});
};
fs.watchFile(cssPath, reloadCss);
License
Apache 2.0
Acknowledgements
Thanks to https://github.com/widget-/slack-black-theme for the idea!
License
Apache 2.0