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Accent colors are now a standard preference for Linux

github.com Accent color on settings portal by lleyton · Pull Request #815 · flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal

Accent Colors Introduction 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 i...

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!

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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.
- The setting being located somewhere is never the hard part, it’s all about the different communities respecting it.
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.
So now we are going to get an 'accent-color' pref in flatpaks or flatpaks finally will follow color-schemes?
- A setting was added that all applications can read and soon desktops which have color schemes will set it.
  
  Oh, thanks! Will gnome apps follow this as well?
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
- 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
Computer, go to red accent
That's good to hear!
So Linus finally merged this?
- Yep Linus got embarrassed that this feature has been missing all these years, so now you can get custom accents on kernel panics.
  
  Finally we can get Blue 🔵 screen of death in Linux
  
  ( ꈍᴗꈍ)
- Isn't this a separate package not part of the Linux kernel? I don't see why Linus would have to get involved.
  
  They are being overly semantic about what “Linux” means. Obviously this is about desktop projects.
- I was thinking 🤔 the same before I opened the link.

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