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Accent colors provide a way for users to personalize their desktop in a simple, developer-friendly, and effective way. Throughout the community there has been a general interest in the inclusion of accent colors within apps and desktop environments. This proposal aims to standardize an accent color key on the Settings portal.

A new key on the Settings portal, accent-color, would be defined under the org.freedesktop.appearance namespace.

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And endorsed by #GNOME, #KDE, #CosmicDE, #ElementaryOS, and #Budgie, at that!

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nice. This feature is similar to Android wallpaper color theming.

And I thought Xorg already had this feature in Xresources, but apps do not respect it.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

The setting being located somewhere is never the hard part, it’s all about the different communities respecting it.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago

Nice! I recently switched to Android and the Material You adaptive coloring through the system is so nice.

Anything that makes customizing a Linux desktop a little easier is good in my book.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So now we are going to get an 'accent-color' pref in flatpaks or flatpaks finally will follow color-schemes?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A setting was added that all applications can read and soon desktops which have color schemes will set it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, thanks! Will gnome apps follow this as well?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Eventually. I don’t think libadwaita supports accents yet.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For what I just read in the github discussion and in the linked gnome discussion is not endorsed by Gnome, as you can see here

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Huh that sounds stupid, I wonder how arbitrary colors would make the feature substantially harder to implement on their side. I never developed for either KDE or GNOME, but the workarounds given sounded super reasonable to ne

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Computer, go to red accent

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That's good to hear!