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android is just getting the ability to let users pick their colors & here's a bunch of appdeves irked that they cant override the user's ability to pick colors
by rektide 5y ago
android is just getting the ability to let users pick their colors & here's a bunch of appdeves irked that they cant override the user's ability to pick colors on linux.
i for one really really liked when i could make a nice theme, a look & feel for my computer. that was a cool time.
i dont know what the third way is. letting apps express power over the users sounds bad. wider fommunity here sounds like cantankerous bad actors.
edit: i'm way way way off here. apparently gnome won't let ANYONE theme. not users, not app-devs.
- esarbe 5y agoYes, indeed. That's the idea behind libadwaita; if you are using it, you are buying into Gnome theming. If you don't want Gnome theming, don't use libadwaita. You can still use and theme Gtk all you want, but libadwaita will disable loading of themes.
- lavabiopsy 5y ago>If you don't want Gnome theming, don't use libadwaita This is not accurate, the current plan seems to be for libadwaita to gain a new theming API. Additionally, apps can still load CSS themes on top of libadwaita.
- mathw 5y agoThey're working on colour choices within Adwaita, which is basically what Android 12's Material You stuff is doing (that's just AI-powered and automagical). What Android isn't adding is the ability to plug in a library that completely changes the way all the widgets render and which everyone writing applications has to step very carefully around because you never know what anything you write is ever going to look like (but you know users will moan about it).