XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.17.1 Released With Accent Color Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.17.1 Released With Accent Color Support

XDG-Desktop-Portal as the portal front-end for Flatpaks is out with a new development release that brings accent color support to sandboxed desktop apps as well as other new features...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/XDG-Desktop-Portal-1.17.1

[JEBjames]

Michael

Typo?

"a new clipboaed portal" probably should be "a new clipboard portal"

[user1]

At first, I thought this means the whole app window is going to be tinted, so that means if you can't achieve consistency between 2 different toolkits on a single DE, at least you'll be able to achieve consistency of colors.. But then I remembered that accent color means coloring only small parts of the ui, so this whole idea now sounds kinda less exciting tbh.

[rmfx]

At first, I thought this means the whole app window is going to be tinted, so that means if you can't achieve consistency between 2 different toolkits on a single DE, at least you'll be able to achieve consistency of colors.. But then I remembered that accent color means coloring only small parts of the ui, so this whole idea now sounds kinda less exciting tbh.

Ok…
And letters suck because they are just part of a word too ?

[user1]

Ok…
And letters suck because they are just part of a word too ?

Not sure what's your point with this analogy. If we take GTK 4 / Libadwaita apps for example, accent colors constitute only about 5-10% of the whole ui (mainly certain buttons and weblinks). So it's not even something you see at every moment you look at a Libadwaita window. That's what makes it way less exciting.