System-wide dark mode

[Allan Day <aday gnome org>]

Hi everyone,

Whether you love dark modes or hate them, they're becoming fairly ubiquitous nowadays, and I think that it's time for GNOME to seriously think about having one of its own.

If we were to support a system-wide dark preference in GNOME, the implication is that we'd generally support it: the desktop and the core apps would be expected to use a dark variant of the theme when it is selected by the user. Therefore, before we get too far into planning and implementing this feature: does anyone know of any serious obstacles they'd face, if we were to support a dark mode?

If you're responsible for any core GNOME UI, you can test this by setting the Adwaita-dark theme in Tweaks.

Thanks,

Allan