Better Google Spaces (former Hangouts Chat)

This patch extends Google Hangouts Chat to make it nicer and simpler to use. Works with both the web browser version and the standalone Chrome App.

In order to use the dark theme, GMail or GHC should already be in dark mode. In order to use the light theme, GMail or GHC should already be in light (default) mode. This plugin will alter some of the color-scheme but relies on the existing color modes.

Note: To use this plugin in the standalone GHC Chrome App, you can use the Chrome version of the extension within Chrome (more details below). The features will apply within the Chrome App exactly like they would in the browser.

Features

Current features:

• Smaller margins and buttons for better readability and screen space optimization
• Resizable right-side thread panel
• Thread-link buttons at the top of each thread for easier referencing
• Several different variants:
  • Light theme (Chat standard colors)
  • Slack theme
  • Dark theme

Installing from official release files

Using the Firefox extension (recommended)

• Download the firefox-better_hangouts_chat_<theme>_X.X.X.xpi file of your choice from the 'releases' section: https://github.com/paveyry/better-hangoutschat/releases
• Open it with Firefox to install the extension and follow the instructions.
• Enjoy

Using the Chrome extension (not signed by Google)

• Download the chrome-better_hangouts_chat_<theme>_X.X.X..zip file of your choice from the 'releases' section: https://github.com/paveyry/better-hangoutschat/releases
• Unzip the archive
• In Chrome, open chrome://extensions
• Click "Developer mode" at the top right-hand corner
• Click "Load unpacked" and select the directory extracted from the zip archive
• Enjoy

Building script from source

Just run this command:

./generate_patch.sh

The output will appear in the out directory.

Preview

Thread links

Click on the Show Thread Links button and thread links will appear before each thread in the current window.

Dark Theme

Slack Theme

Light Theme