@wizardfrag Right now it is user-customizable. We may, in the future, have an option to load a color profile from the background image. It was something worked on before.
This theme was created entirely in the standard COSMIC Settings program. Themes can be exported and imported from there for sharing. Here is the WIP Appearance page, showing the theme settings that can be modified:
@soller That's crazy cool, and thanks for taking themeing seriously. Will COSMIC also support entirely custom themes (now or in a future release)? Or do you think what you have here satisfies that need?
As someone with photophobic challenges who generally has to frantically hack away at system UI to tone things down and make window backgrounds and elements non-painful to me, and text-to-background contrast ratios actually legible, I cannot possibly praise this enough.
This would allow me to tailor my system for my #accessibility needs right out of the box, without any obnoxious digging and hacking around things that aren't intended to be modified (plus change every release)
@soller if you and @system76 are interested I would be more than happy - delighted even - to discuss more details and share some examples of the type of concerns and things I normally have to change (and how much this could be a lifesaver for me by comparison). It looks like you already have a lot of it covered simply based on this screenshot, but just in case it would be useful or helpful to you in any way, I'm here!
Very simple, clear window decorations are a big deal for me too.
@soller
theming ideas I have looking at this that (feel free to have that in COSMIC, will appreciate):
moving the box
moving the buttons
changing the box's size (like making it take whole ścreen instead of just a bit, so you can see it from far away)
setting different fonts
setting lock screen background separate from desktop
ability to set box's background as an image instead of colour
making the box have transparency (can be used as a workaround for the previous one too so I'd say that one's more important)
splitting the box into two so you can have specific login stuff in the middle of the screen and clock battery and friends in the corner
different backgrounds for different displays
having seconds on the clock
analog clock
flip clock
these are not demands and I am not aware of how hard it is to make all that work (might be not worth it), but either way I am and will still be looking forward to seeing the progress on this great project that will no doubt make linux desktop more awesome (and yeah it is open source so if I get real good at programming or someone does it before, we - the linux community - can achieve transparent lock screen flip clocks)
@soller Heh, seeing this makes me wonder... Could a Material You style theming be implemented? Where the colours are determined by your wallpaper? That would be amazing if it could be!
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