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Material Incognito Dark Theme

# Material Incognito Dark Theme
A theme that adds the dark Incognito Mode colour scheme to the normal mode of Chrome.

With the release of Material Design in Google Chrome, Incognito mode uses a dark colour scheme to distinguish it from normal mode. This theme imitates that colour scheme and applies it throughout the whole browser.

Please leave comments about my theme if you wish; I enjoy seeing feedback.

For users that wish to have the normal mode light colour scheme be applied throughout the whole browser instead, please install Material Incognito Light Theme.

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### Github
This theme is fully open-source under the Apache License! Check out the source code on [Github](https://github.com/Fiddle-N/material-incognito-dark-theme/).

### Limitations
All elements of the official Incognito mode dark colour scheme have been ported over where possible. Unfortunately, Chrome bugs and limitations mean that I can't reproduce it with 100% full-fidelity. These are as follows:

1. The URL bar cannot be coloured and must stay white.
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2. I cannot colour the titlebar a dark colour in Windows without also introducing Windows 7-style minimise, maximise and close buttons.

This issue has been fixed in Chrome 58+, but the fix is a Chrome flag that has to be manually enabled. A future Chrome update will auto-enable this feature; when that update has been pushed to most people, it will be the right time to update this theme.
This issue has been fixed in Chrome 58+, but the fix is a Chrome flag that has to be manually enabled. A future Chrome update will auto-enable this feature; when that update has been pushed to most people, I will update this theme accordingly to take advantage of this.

For the time being, on Windows 10 (version 1607), you can go to the Settings app -> Personalisation -> Colours, choose the second shade of grey in the sixth row of colours, and then toggle on "Show colour on title bar". This colours the titlebar grey to match Material Incognito Dark Theme. For other OSs, please consult alternative documentation.

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4. There is a upper white line between the URL bar row and bookmark bar.

I cannot do anything about this white line; to speed up its removal, please star this issue here: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=628312 .
~~I cannot do anything about this white line; to speed up its removal, please star this issue here: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=628312 .~~
This is no longer an issue in Chrome 61. Thank you Google and all the people who raised/starred this issue!

5. There is a lower white line underneath the bookmark bar.

In theory, I can remove this line; in practice, I cannot. The colour of this line is tied to the bookmark bar text colour. If the bookmark bar text is white, then so too is that line. If the bookmark bar text is black, then that line will be black as well and will fade into the background, but the bookmark bar text itself will be unreadable. This catch-22 situation is why this line must stay white. If someone opens up a Chromium bug tracker entry to allow these two elements to be set independently, I will star the entry and link to it here.
~~In theory, I can remove this line; in practice, I cannot. The colour of this line is tied to the bookmark bar text colour. If the bookmark bar text is white, then so too is that line. If the bookmark bar text is black, then that line will be black as well and will fade into the background, but the bookmark bar text itself will be unreadable. This catch-22 situation is why this line must stay white. If someone opens up a Chromium bug tracker entry to allow these two elements to be set independently, I will star the entry and link to it here.~~
This is no longer an issue in Chrome 61. Thank you Google and all the people who raised/starred this issue!

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