Firefox 133 now seems to follow Gnome's accent color!
Firefox 133 now seems to follow Gnome's accent color!
Not sure if this is also true for KDE.
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firefox has been following kde's colors for a good while now
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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.
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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
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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.
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But gnome apps don't do that on XFCE. simple-scan and zenity as an example. Please don't implement libadwaita, guys.
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But gnome apps don't do that on XFCE. simple-scan and zenity as an example.
The latest version of both simple-scan and zenity do support custom accent colors. AFAICT, XFCE doesn't support the XDG accent color setting.
Please don't implement libadwaita, guys.
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.
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Works on cinnamon aswell Which is a fork of Gnome 3.
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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.
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Okay that would make sense.
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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...
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Did you submit a bug report?
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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: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-and-diagnose-firefox-problems#w_5-refresh-firefox
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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
It is 🙂
I hate Firefox for not working with my themes like all other apps do… And there seems to be no browser that does.