[Release] DarkenTS - Save the eyes

[Brady_The]

Hello everyone,

following you will find my interpretation of a dark design for TeamSpeak. Being an owner of a multi monitor system I always felt annoyed by this big pearly-white spot disturbing my nightly gaming session, which finally forced my hand. Most areas of TeamSpeak should be covered. Still, there might be some spots left I missed. Or some settings are just not suitable for daily use. Hit me up if you found bugs, have suggestions, etc.

The design was created with following Design settings:

Style: System Default (Important, other styles might change the appearance of DarkenTS and introduce glitches. Styles mainly change the design of GUI elements, which, in almost every single instance will be overwritten by DarkenTS.)

and comes with a unique icon set, fitting the dark theme.

Enjoy!

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Screenshots DarkenTS: https://imgtc.com/a/Di54KRBddE	Screenshots DarkenTS - Dissension: https://imgtc.com/a/yuLoaIs7QX	Screenshots DarkenTS - Desolation: https://imgtc.com/a/6MBXuAOWhw
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Screenshots Icon set (Preview): https://imgtc.com/a/AN3prR5oRT	LightenTS Icon Pack (used to be with default/light themes)
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myTeamSpeak is the only official download source. If you find my themes and icon packs somewhere else, I cannot guarantee that you receive the original, most up-to-date addons.

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Please report any bugs or design flaws you encounter, as well as feature wishes.

InfAQ:
Q My title bar looks white instead of green. Why is that?
A I am using Windows 10 as an Operating System with a custom colour scheme, which affects the appearance of the TeamSpeak title bar. Using a different Operating System, or a different colour scheme may change the overall look of the TeamSpeak title bar. Have a look at this post to find out how to change this behaviour.

Considerable changes (v 1.5.1): License change (TL;DR: No changes for end user, more information in respectively DarkenTS.qss, DarkenTS-Dissension.qss, and settings.ini)
Considerable changes (v 1.5): Added Dissension style. Added circular variation of player talk status icons, similar to TeamSpeak defaults: To change icons navigate to '%appdata%\TS3Client\gfx\DarkenTS', remove or rename 'settings.ini', and rename 'settings__TalkIcons.ini' into 'settings.ini'. Reworked the display of Channel Topic and Channel Description in Extended TPL.
Considerable changes (v 1.4): Changed GUI elements file structure: Deleting the existing theme folder "/styles/DarkenTS" before updating is recommended.
Considerable changes (v 1.3): Art style of existing icons changed. Added missing icons. Icon pack complete..
Considerable changes (v 1.2): If you want to use the extended .tpl versions, navigate to "TeamSpeak 3 Client\styles\DarkenTS\_Extended", copy and paste all .tpl's into the style root folder. Additionally you can backup all .tpl's into the _Default folder.
Considerable changes (v 1.1): By request of Deireadh and monkyyx I added the option for TabBar borders and ScrollBar buttons. Per default those options are disabled. For more information read the changelog in DarkenTS.qss.

Note: TabBar borders are set up as example. Customisation to fit the theme or your own liking is needed.

License
This work is licensed under the Brady Use-NoSharing-NoDerivatives 1.0 WW License.
TL;DR:
Use - Not only ok, but very much welcomed.
Copy-pasting to cheese-unlock myTeamSpeak Developer badge - Not ok, not allowed. I will find you.

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[community.teamspeak thread]

[numma_cway]

Generally a nice theme. I like the different colors for channels, users and servers throughout the theme.
However, I have a few suggestions:

• Disabled menu items are hard to see. They are even harder to see while hovered.
• Decide whether you want borders or not. The three main panes (tree, details, chat) have borders, everything else (especially chat/servers tabs, the chatbox and the (expanded) menus) doesn't. I personally like borders.
• I find the rather big "pseudo-border" (the darker color around menus) confusing, especially as I have two columns of bookmarks where it fills the unused space in the second column.
• I like themes with more details in the details pane.
• Why are the hotkeys in bold font?
• Link targets are barely visible in the status bar.

(Tested on Windows 7)

[monkyyx]

Generally a nice theme. I like the different colors for channels, users and servers throughout the theme.
However, I have a few suggestions:

• Disabled menu items are hard to see. They are even harder to see while hovered.
• Decide whether you want borders or not. The three main panes (tree, details, chat) have borders, everything else (especially chat/servers tabs, the chatbox and the (expanded) menus) doesn't. I personally like borders.
• I find the rather big "pseudo-border" (the darker color around menus) confusing, especially as I have two columns of bookmarks where it fills the unused space in the second column.
• I like themes with more details in the details pane.
• Why are the hotkeys in bold font?
• Link targets are barely visible in the status bar.

(Tested on Windows 7)

In addition to that:

• As you may know, there are still a few white spots (emoticons, microphone options, ...)
• Some links in the options menu (those blue ones) are a little dark
• If you write something in chat, there's automatically a paragraph (i guess it's called that)
• The refresh button seems a little strage to me
• But one of the most important things are those borders numma_cway mentioned before
• ...

Still the best dark theme tho!

(Tested on Windows 10)

[Brady_The]

First off all my apologies for my late response. Thank you for your feedback, numma_cway and monkyyx!

List

* Disabled menu items are hard to see. They are even harder to see while hovered.
- Adjusted.
* Decide whether you want borders or not. The three main panes (tree, details, chat) have borders, everything else (especially chat/servers tabs, the chatbox and the (expanded) menus) doesn't. I personally like borders.
- Fixed!
* I find the rather big "pseudo-border" (the darker color around menus) confusing, especially as I have two columns of bookmarks where it fills the unused space in the second column.
- Fixed!
* I like themes with more details in the details pane.
- When it comes to that I am unfortunately a puritan, which is why I haven't messed around too much with the .tpl's. What information would you like to see?
* Why are the hotkeys in bold font?
- Adjusted.
* Link targets are barely visible in the status bar.
- Fixed!

List

* As you may know, there are still a few white spots (emoticons, microphone options, ...)
- Added (how embarrassing I missed those). I assume with "microphone options" you mean the "Change volume" option on users?
* Some links in the options menu (those blue ones) are a little dark
- I am afraid I can't do anything in that regard. Unfortunately.
* If you write something in chat, there's automatically a paragraph (i guess it's called that)
- Please expand on that with a screenshot. Thank you.
* The refresh button seems a little strange to me
- Fixed!
* But one of the most important things are those borders numma_cway mentioned before
- Fixed!
* ...
!

[numma_cway]

* I find the rather big "pseudo-border" (the darker color around menus) confusing, especially as I have two columns of bookmarks where it fills the unused space in the second column.
- Please post a screenshot, I am afraid I do not see it 1 2, maybe due to the lack of bookmarks. Thank you.

The stuff that's #1c1c1c.

[monkyyx]

* As you may know, there are still a few white spots (emoticons, microphone options, ...)
- Added (how embarrassing I missed those). I assume with "microphone options" you mean the "Change volume" option on users?
* If you write something in chat, there's automatically a paragraph (i guess it's called that)
- Please expand on that with a screenshot. Thank you.
* But one of the most important things are those borders numma_cway mentioned before
- Please post screenshots as well. The more the merrier.
* ...
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1. Yes, I meant those.
2. At this point I'm not sure if it's a problem of the theme or mine. Have to figure that out!
3. I will as soon as I'm home.

[Brady_The]

The stuff that's #1c1c1c.

- Fixed!

2. At this point I'm not sure if it's a problem of the theme or mine. Have to figure that out!
3. I will as soon as I'm home.

2. This is how my chat looks: https://i.sli.mg/mQjNTh.png
3. I fixed the bug. No need for screenshots any more. Thank you!

[numma_cway]

If you hover any external web link in chat, the statusbar displays the link in the color of the newsticker (black).

[Deireadh]

Hi. Nice work. I need arrows at the top and bottom. Could it add? Wherever there are scrolls

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[Brady_The]

Hi. Nice work. I need arrows at the top and bottom. Could it add? Wherever there are scrolls

I am afraid I haven't planned anything in that regard. However, the "scroll button function" is still there if one wants to use it. Clicking on the usual location of the arrows will have the desired effect.

[Chris]

Please provide a screenshot. I am unable to reproduce this behaviour neither in Windows 10, nor in Windows 7.

That functionality is not available when the news ticker is being displayed. Close the News ticker and you should see it.
In any case simply merge the definitions for "QStatusBar" and "QStatusBar QLabel" (Delete Lines 364 to 366 inclusive) and it should be fixed.

PS: You should probably also adjust the tpl, because right now, the custom nickname and channel type are displayed in dark blue, which makes it unreadable with that dark gray background.

[monkyyx]

I'm not sure if this is a problem of my icon pack but the arrow next to the "AwayButton" is kinda dark/black.
Another thing is that the server/channel group icons haven't enough space because of the arrow.

[Brady_The]

That functionality is not available when the news ticker is being displayed. Close the News ticker and you should see it.
In any case simply merge the definitions for "QStatusBar" and "QStatusBar QLabel" (Delete Lines 364 to 366 inclusive) and it should be fixed.

PS: You should probably also adjust the tpl, because right now, the custom nickname and channel type are displayed in dark blue, which makes it unreadable with that dark gray background.

Cool, I never noticed this before. Thank you for your help! .tpl's are adjusted accordingly. Thank you.

I'm not sure if this is a problem of my icon pack but the arrow next to the "AwayButton" is kinda dark/black.
Another thing is that the server/channel group icons haven't enough space because of the arrow.

Both are fixed in the current version. :-)

[monkyyx]

Both are fixed in the current version. :-)

Very nice!
When will you upload the updated version? Or is it already up?

[Brady_The]

Very nice!
When will you upload the updated version? Or is it already up?

My apologies, real life got in the way.

[URL REMOVED] you can get the newest version.