Re: System-wide dark mode

[Kalev Lember <kalevlember gmail com>]

On 5/29/19 15:35, Allan Day wrote:
> 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?

Screenshots in gnome-software are probably going to get a bit messy,
with some apps shipping their screenshots using the light theme and some
using the dark theme. I don't think it would scale to ask app upstreams
to ship both screenshots, so I think we'll just have to live with this.

Beyond that, there's minor work required in gnome-software to make sure
everything looks good, but nothing that I know that is showstopper.

Kalev