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hey guys what's up gabriel here from
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chrome unboxed and today we are talking
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it's been a little over a year since
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google officially rolled out
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dark theme for android 10 back in
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september of last year and
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shortly thereafter we discovered work
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being done on chrome os that would
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hopefully bring us the same features to
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just recently in a canary update the
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theme option has finally arrived and
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while it's not quite ready for the
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we have two devices here one with the
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light theme and one with a dark theme
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for you guys to take a look at because
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you really like dark mode i like dark
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mode all the things any app that i have
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that works with dark mode i use it my
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and i would love for my chrome os
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devices to be in dark mode as well
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so before too long hopefully by the end
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you'll have that option so let's take a
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look at the new chrome os
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dark light theme alright guys so we have
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device on the light theme you'll notice
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the bar at the bottom has a little bit
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of a translucent opaque look to it
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and then the system tray here looks
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the first commit that enabled this on
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literally just gave you this button
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right here that says dark theme offer on
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off and the bar at the bottom your shelf
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turned white and this toggle turned
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and for the light theme that's really
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about all the difference you're going to
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google does have a new set of wallpapers
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coming out called elements and they each
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have a light version and a dark version
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meant to complement this light theme
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that they're having so instead of being
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it's sort of opaque with a little bit of
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translucence to it but if you look in
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and the explore app and things of that
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it really doesn't look any different
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than chrome os right now everything
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that's white should be white it doesn't
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so the light theme is very subtle now
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where you see a lot of differences is
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when you come over here to the device
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that has dark theme on it
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dark theme obviously takes a lot of work
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because you're dealing with very very
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and you're still trying to render things
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like web pages and system settings
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in a way that's visible and viewable by
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the user where you normally have things
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like black text and black logos and
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things of that nature
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dark mode would inherently cover that up
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and that's something we saw a few months
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google was experimenting with forced
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dark mode on websites
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websites that weren't designed to handle
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would actually just end up looking black
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look like something that was in high
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contrast mode the colors would be
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inverted or blown out and it just looked
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horrible so this is something google's
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of time and developmental energy into
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it still has a lot of work but here's
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your first look at the overall
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dark theme for chrome os so you'll see
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very very dark this does have a slight
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bit of opacity to it you can't really
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tell with this background but these are
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to show just a little bit of color from
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your background so you'll see that
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change depending on which wallpaper you
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but with the dark theme on you'll see
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your shelf is dark as well
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and then your chrome os launcher is dark
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so everything here looks pretty good
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every everything looks
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polished there's not a lot going on as
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not rendering well they've done a good
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where things start to break down just a
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little bit or when you get into
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the system settings this white bar
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across the top i'm sure that's probably
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but the settings menu looks pretty good
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some of these darker blues and stuffs
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are probably going to need to be
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lightened up a little bit just to make
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more visible things like buttons and
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stuff that have very small borders
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the chrome os team is going to have to
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find a way to make those smaller
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elements pop so that they're more
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visible but overall this doesn't look
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what is really impressive is what
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they've done with the web ui
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there was a couple more flags added last
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week that actually allow
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for forcing dark mode again on chrome
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and if you have a website that has any
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white elements those are going to be
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forced to a dark element so this is
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with the force dark mode on and honestly
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it looks really good if you ever
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ventured over to gaming unboxed before
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we moved it over here this is
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very much what gaming unbox look like
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forcing dark mode on a website would
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generally result in just
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completely unusable most of your text
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would be gone because
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everything would be forced to dark and
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you wouldn't see anything so
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they're doing a really good job here
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this is still going to require
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some work on the website owner's ends to
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their website set up to handle dark mode
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we could code this to where if someone's
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and the site detects that they're using
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dark theme on chrome os
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this changed to a white logo so it's
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more visible but overall google's doing
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a really great job on their
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end of rendering these websites
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that are normally staunch white in dark
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you can see patreon is another great
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really really good patreon probably
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could just not touch their website and
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it's going to look great
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on dark mode so you have a few other
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things the explore app which is the
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application that opens when you first
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launch your chromebook
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google obviously designed this app so
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it's already looking pretty good
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for dark mode some of these colors are
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going to have to change
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but overall the dark theme is coming
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along really nicely uh there's probably
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still a lot of work to do on the back
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end as far as the web
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stuff and i don't know if google's ever
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going to go to a forced web ui
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but because some of the applications
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that run on chrome os
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are technically web apps some of the
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system applications are actually web
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they're forcing that web ui so that they
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can get the dark mode on these system
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i don't know that they would ever force
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websites that's something that should be
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left up to to the developers as to
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whether or not they want their
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websites to render in dark mode other
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than that guys you can just see
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everything is nice and clean and
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one thing i learned while we were
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setting up this shot i had both of these
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devices logged into the same account
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and every time i changed the dark light
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mode on one device it would
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instantly switch on the other device so
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whatever they're doing right now
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is syncing at an account level so i
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actually had to log in
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to two different accounts to get this to
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work because it was changing every time
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i tried to switch it so
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there you go guys like i said this
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probably still has some some pretty
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decent amount of work before they're
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ready for prime time on this but i would
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dark mode to be beginning of the year
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maybe end of the first quarter
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and you'll see it in the stable channel
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we'll keep track of it
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should be rolling up to the developer
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channel pretty soon for chrome os
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