| Availability |
Odoo Online
Odoo.sh
On Premise
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| Odoo Apps Dependencies |
Discuss (mail)
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| Lines of code | 7527 |
| Technical Name |
theme_openc |
| License | LGPL-3 |
| Versions | 18.0 19.0 |
Make Odoo feel like home.
A polished backend theme built for the people who spend their whole day in Odoo — a slim sidebar that knows when to get out of the way, an Alt+K launcher that finds anything in a heartbeat, dark mode, and a phone-friendly drawer with real swipe gestures.
Limited-time price, no discount code required.
▶See it in action
A 2-minute walkthrough of the sidebar drawer, the Alt+K launcher, pinning, dark mode and the customisable background.
What you get
Sidebar Navigation
Slim 50px rail with hover-expand, lock, favorites. Mobile = swipe-able drawer overlay.
Multi-Tabs
Browser-style tabs across Odoo actions with close buttons and overflow scroll.
Command Center
Alt+K launcher with fuzzy search across apps AND menu items. Recents tracked.
Pin Apps & Sub-Menus
Star your favorite apps and pin individual sub-menus like Quotations or Customers.
Custom Background
7 gradient presets, colour picker, or paste any image URL for the launcher background.
Dark Mode
Full dark theme covering navbar, sidebar, forms, lists, kanban, dropdowns, login.
Login Page Layouts
4 orientations (Default / Left / Centre / Right) with glass-card styling.
Bookmarks & Notes
Persistent per-user bookmarks panel plus a scratchpad for ad-hoc notes.
List / Form / Kanban
Three list densities, persistent column resize, kanban hover preview, smart refresh.
Mobile / Tablet First
Drawer ≤ 768px, swipe gestures, sticky first column on lists, scroll-lock.
Accessibility
:focus-visible everywhere, WCAG contrast, reduced-motion, ARIA labels.
Role-Based Defaults
"Theme OpenC / Administrator" group — admin auto-included — pushes company-wide defaults.
Color presets
One click in the Tools dropdown re-tints sidebar, navbar, accents, buttons, and login page.
Keyboard & gestures
- Alt + K — open the command center launcher
- Escape — close any overlay (launcher, drawer, dropdowns)
- Tab — visible focus rings on every interactive element
- Double-click app — open without preview
- Swipe right from left edge — open the sidebar drawer
- Swipe left in drawer — close the sidebar drawer
Company-wide configuration
An administrator configures defaults once — no need to ask each employee to set their own theme.
- Color preset applied to every user
- Dark mode by default for the whole company
- Font size, list density, menu background
- "Force on all users" wipes local overrides next load
Settings → General Settings → Theme OpenC.
Only members of Theme OpenC / Administrator can edit —
the system administrator is added to this group automatically on install.
A peek inside
Inline UI mockups — what the theme looks like once installed. Real screenshots from your own database can be dropped into static/description/screenshots/.
The slim 50px rail with favorites + browser-style tabs above the workspace.
Fuzzy search across apps + menus. Pin individual sub-menus you use every day.
7 gradient presets, a colour picker, or paste any image URL. Auto-readability overlay.
Full dark coverage. On phones the sidebar slides in from the left with a swipe gesture.
Changelog
18.0.3.2.3 🎉 Launch promotion — $9 (was $20)
- Limited-time price drop from 20 USD to 9 USD to celebrate the first stable release of Theme OpenC for Odoo 18 Community.
- Manifest
pricefield updated; the regular price (20 USD) is documented in a manifest comment and in the description so buyers can see the saving.
18.0.3.2.2 Community edition badging & Apps Store polish
- Explicit mention of Odoo 18 Community Edition in the manifest description (no enterprise dependencies).
- Added
images,supportandlive_test_urlmanifest fields so the Apps Store auto-detects the cover, the support email and the demo URL. - Hero badge updated to "Odoo 18 Community".
18.0.3.2.1 Cover image for the Apps Store
- Added a 1344×768 cover image (banner.png) so the module no longer triggers the "no cover image" warning on the Odoo Apps Store. Branding-aligned design with the theme name, tagline, feature pills and a version badge.
18.0.3.2.0 Role-based defaults & better bg overlay
- New security group Theme OpenC / Administrator — admin auto-included.
- Company-wide defaults: color preset, dark mode, font size, list density, menu background.
- "Force on all users" option to push the look across the whole company.
- Per-card translucent surfaces instead of a full-canvas veil (gradient stays vivid, text stays readable).
- Background panel positioning fixed (no longer clipped by overflow).
18.0.3.1.0 Pin sub-menus & custom backgrounds
- Pin individual sub-menus — section "Pinned Menus".
- 7 gradient presets + colour picker + image URL background.
- Mobile breakpoint widened to 768px.
- Sticky first column on list views during horizontal scroll.
- Recursive submenu tree auto-expanded with collapsible parents.
18.0.3.0.0 Mobile drawer + accessibility
- Sidebar becomes a swipe-able drawer overlay on mobile/tablet.
- Hamburger toggle in navbar (mobile only).
- :focus-visible rings, reduced-motion, high-contrast support.
- Login page color aligned with active theme preset.
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