Firefox 133 now seems to follow Gnome's accent color!
from that_leaflet@lemmy.world to linux@lemmy.ml on 26 Nov 21:51
https://lemmy.world/post/22476957
from that_leaflet@lemmy.world to linux@lemmy.ml on 26 Nov 21:51
https://lemmy.world/post/22476957
Not sure if this is also true for KDE.
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Such a little detail, but makes me so happy.
It’s not a little detail, it means that Firefox is more integrated into your OS
I hate Firefox for not working with my themes like all other apps do… And there seems to be no browser that does.
It is 🙂
Now if they can fix the bug where once in a while I click to a tab and it doesn't switch to it unless I minimize and maximize again, and needing a restart of the browser to get rid of that behavior...
Did you submit a bug report?
Hmm, sounds like it doesn’t repaint the browser contents then. Could be something to do with your graphics driver.
Could also be that a profile refresh happens to fix it: …mozilla.org/…/troubleshoot-and-diagnose-firefox-…
firefox has been following kde’s colors for a good while now
True, although not in the same way. KDE is using its own GTK theme and uses ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css to override colors to the accent color. But this method is broken for sandboxed versions of Firefox since they can’t access ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css (though with flatpak you could create an override to allow it).
I believe (and hope) Firefox is now following the standardized accent color portal for determining the accent color. If so, then this accent color change should work on Gnome, KDE, Pantheon, and other desktops that support the accent color portal. If true, then even sandboxed apps should follow the accent color without messing with the sandbox.
I love the flatpak Wayland portals and systemd desktop stack. It allows Linux to finally have some sort of standard that everyone agrees on. This is what has been holding Linux back for so many years, it’s basically impossible to build a Linux app that will work for everyone because of this. Now we have a single dedicated system APIs that is available basically everywhere
Well yes, but not really as not all desktops agree on and implement various wayland protocols and other features like the system tray, server side decorations, etc, etc. Quite a number of apps don’t work everywhere or appear broken depending on their environment. I’ve seen it happen live in a couple of youtube videos. People trying linux and having a problem that only exists on the desktop environment they were using.
But I agree with the sentiment. Better than before.
the good thing is that virtually everyone uses GNOME and KDE, so the small issues are mostly encountered by more advanced users with custom setups. The main point is that app developers can now develop apps that will work anywhere that implements the required features, and if it doesnt, then too bad, show an error message. Its the same kind of problem with, for example, webcams. The user may or may not have a webcam connected, in which case you display an error popup with a clear message that it does not work because the feature is not implemented. They could go into fallbacks but those are usually platform/desktop specific (which goes against the point of building using the standard stack)
Eh, it’s mostly everyone agrees but Gnome doesn’t
Uhmm… It was always possible to make an “app” that works on all linuxes the same.
There was always a need for a specific system dependency like for the file picker. There was no universal API that uses a system provided way to have a file picker. It had to be hacked together by adding dependencies to the app and everything that comes with this
The Linux part was never a problem. The userspace is.
For the proper opensource apps, this can be fixed by the package maintainers (shout-out to the real heroes!).
For proprietary, compile-once run anywhere apps, that was always a problem. For more info, I recommend this great FOSDEM talk by Simon McVittie from Collabora.
Stupid question, Do you know if there is a similar method for qt apps installed through flatpak? I could not get Kate to use my accent color and it’s been driving me crazy. Also, happy we finally have a standard for accent colors. Now if we could just have a standard for global menus, probably wishful thinking.
Bizarrely enough, I think KDE apps also read that info from ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css. So use Flatseal, KDE’s settings, or the CLI to give all apps access to that file.
I’ll give it a try. Thank you!
But gnome apps don’t do that on XFCE. simple-scan and zenity as an example. Please don’t implement libadwaita, guys.
The latest version of both simple-scan and zenity do support custom accent colors. AFAICT, XFCE doesn’t support the XDG accent color setting.
This is just extremely misleading. Libadwaita uses the system accent color by default which makes it even easier respect the users preference when developing a GTK application.
Works on cinnamon aswell Which is a fork of Gnome 3.
Cinnamon’s accent color support works by changing the GTK theme, which Firefox would follow.
The Firefox 133 update changes the accent color without changing the GTK theme, I believe it’s following the accent color portal.
Okay that would make sense.