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.

Via @orowith2os@tech.lgbt

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

  • QuazarOmegaA
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    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