@cassidy I'd pass, for multiple reasons.

Firstly, both of my own apps depend on custom drawing and hardcoded colors in various places, and setting up plumbing and making design compromises for each little thing like that, to ensure that the contrast is always right, would be more work than I consider worth it.

I've attached some screenshots of my apps with light recoloring that I believe people would reasonably expect from this kind of system. My apps can't deliver that.

@cassidy no, because the single gnome/adwaita app I wrote is for a single user, and she's happy with the stock theme. While I have a few more app ideas, which might be interesting to more people, they have not been made yet.

Regardless of the target audience, I have enough on my plate, don't need more. Unless there is a very clear, and big benefit for my users, I would not opt in.

@cassidy While I'd love to see some more colorful apps on our platform, I fear that this would just reintroduce some of the problems of the CSS overrides kind of theming, like low contrast, breaking custom drawings/hard coded colors, and clashing with the colorful app illustrations. Even on Android it breaks badly sometimes.

In Cozy, it would surely clash with our custom drawing, but I'm also afraid it would look bad as a background behind the colorful book covers.

@cassidy personally I think it would be cool if there was even an easy way to do mostly-arbitrary recoloring like some other desktops do, to me it wouldn’t be that much more work to support when I already need to test for things like dark/hc styles, rtl layouts, different font sizes etc (though I haven’t developed anything more complex than a simple toolbox app)

especially with the new css color work coming soon, I think it would be okay? (dunno if detailed color theming is something any of the gnome designers want, though I’d be fine opting into any customization options in my apps whatever they are… sorry if this post is just useless noise)

@cassidy Can you give a bit more context?

User chosen theming can be just a change of color, which would work for most cases I suppose, except for apps that define their own colors. However, if we start changing spacing/margins, things get a lot more tricky.

Adwaita apps look great on Linux IMHO, look good on macOS, and look better on Windows than native apps 😎 .

@cassidy Don't have any public GNOME apps yet, but I can only imagine a few circumstances where I'd want to opt out if well implemented.

Seems like the primary concerns are:

1. Stylesheets breaking layouts
2. Colors clashing with graphics & artwork
3. Colors breaking accessibility via low contrast

each is manageable if the proper constraints were applied.