SUMMARY Breeze Twilight uses Breeze Dark as its Plasma Style, which doesn't follow system colors. An oversight of this is that it makes impossible for the new Accent Colors to be used on panels and widgets. even thought it seems easy to update Breeze Dark(and Light) to follow Accent Colors and only Accent Colors STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Go to System Settings 2. Change Global Theme to Breeze Twilight 3. Go to Colors 4. Change the Accent Color OBSERVED RESULT Accents are still blue EXPECTED RESULT Custom accent colors to work on widget and panels while still using Breeze Twilight SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20211016 KDE Plasma Version: 5.23.0 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.86.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION I've managed to get it working, I've made a copy of Breeze Dark, and deleted every line that used the values "61,174,233" in the color file (.../plasma/desktoptheme/breeze-dark/colors). It's not perfect, as it requires reapplying the Plasma Style to get it working
Indeed, it'll set Breeze Dark which doesn't respect *any* of the colors in the color scheme. This has always been by design, but I suppose with the Accent Color feature, it's not so desirable anymore. We can look into making Breeze and Breezew Dark respect the accent colors feature
I think at one point Breeze Light and Breeze Dark Plasma themes got their highlight colors from the system theme, but there were some bugs and the accent color feature didn't exist at the time, so we stopped allowing them to get highlight colors from the system color scheme.
There is a more convoluted option: Add an option to change the color scheme of Plasma Style. I can't speak for every user, but the only reason I even use a Plasma Style is that I like the color scheme of applications to be different from the color scheme of panels and other "system stuff". As far as I can tell, the only difference from Breeze to Breeze Light and Breeze Dark as Plasma Styles, is a single file called "plasmoidheading.svgz" and to use a different color scheme from the one used by applications. I feel the same apply to many user created styles, where there's a Dark and Light variation. If you could manually select a different color scheme for Plasma Style independently of the application's one, there would be no reason to even have Breeze Dark and Breeze Light or so many of Styles that are duplicate of another. AND it would make it easier for the end user to change some colors without having to manually create a new plasma theme that comprises of a single "colors" file.
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Raising priority because a distro (Fedora KDE) ships with Breeze Twilight by default, which suffers from this bug and causes the Accent Color feature to not apply to Plasma stuff.
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The first step to fix this is to implement a forced refresh of the Plasma Theme whenever the user change colors. I modified the Plasma Theme so that it carries accent colors, but every time I change the accent color I need to swap to another Plasma Theme and back again so that the new accent color gets applied.
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I see that is a lot of duplicated "bugs" about this, but what about the progression of this? Is someone working in this bug? There is a PR or something about this, if someone already started to work on it? Where we can see, where we can get this information?
(In reply to Denys Madureira from comment #10) > I see that is a lot of duplicated "bugs" about this, but what about the > progression of this? Is someone working in this bug? Not to my knowledge. > There is a PR or something about this, if someone already started to work on it? Not yet. > Where we can see, where we can get this information? Right here.
To make all elements inside the "Breeze Light" and "Breeze Dark" plasma desktop theme widgets respect the used current color scheme I copied both files /usr/share/desktoptheme/breeze-dark/colors and /usr/share/desktoptheme/breeze-light/colors to the folders ~/.local/share/desktoptheme/breeze-dark and ~/.local/share/desktoptheme/breeze-light. In that location I commented out al lot of items in both files. After that the breeze-dark and breeze-light desktop theme followed the current system colors. Example Breeze-Dark (same with Breeze-Light): [ColorEffects:Disabled] Color=56,56,56 ColorAmount=0 ColorEffect=0 ContrastAmount=0.65 ContrastEffect=1 IntensityAmount=0.1 IntensityEffect=2 [ColorEffects:Inactive] ChangeSelectionColor=true Color=112,111,110 ColorAmount=0.025 ColorEffect=2 ContrastAmount=0.1 ContrastEffect=2 Enable=false IntensityAmount=0 IntensityEffect=0 [Colors:Button] #BackgroundAlternate=30,87,116 BackgroundNormal=49,54,59 #DecorationFocus=61,174,233 #DecorationHover=61,174,233 #ForegroundActive=61,174,233 ForegroundInactive=161,169,177 #ForegroundLink=29,153,243 ForegroundNegative=218,68,83 #ForegroundNeutral=246,116,0 ForegroundNormal=252,252,252 #ForegroundPositive=39,174,96 #ForegroundVisited=155,89,182 [Colors:Complementary] BackgroundAlternate=30,87,116 BackgroundNormal=42,46,50 #DecorationFocus=61,174,233 #DecorationHover=61,174,233 #ForegroundActive=61,174,233 ForegroundInactive=161,169,177 #ForegroundLink=29,153,243 ForegroundNegative=218,68,83 #ForegroundNeutral=246,116,0 ForegroundNormal=252,252,252 #ForegroundPositive=39,174,96 #ForegroundVisited=155,89,182 [Colors:Header] BackgroundAlternate=42,46,50 BackgroundNormal=49,54,59 #DecorationFocus=61,174,233 #DecorationHover=61,174,233 #ForegroundActive=61,174,233 ForegroundInactive=161,169,177 #ForegroundLink=29,153,243 ForegroundNegative=218,68,83 #ForegroundNeutral=246,116,0 ForegroundNormal=252,252,252 #ForegroundPositive=39,174,96 #ForegroundVisited=155,89,182 [Colors:Header][Inactive] BackgroundAlternate=49,54,59 BackgroundNormal=42,46,50 #DecorationFocus=61,174,233 #DecorationHover=61,174,233 #ForegroundActive=61,174,233 ForegroundInactive=161,169,177 #ForegroundLink=29,153,243 ForegroundNegative=218,68,83 #ForegroundNeutral=246,116,0 ForegroundNormal=252,252,252 #ForegroundPositive=39,174,96 #ForegroundVisited=155,89,182 [Colors:Selection] BackgroundAlternate=30,87,116 #BackgroundNormal=61,174,233 #DecorationFocus=61,174,233 #DecorationHover=61,174,233 ForegroundActive=252,252,252 ForegroundInactive=161,169,177 #ForegroundLink=253,188,75 ForegroundNegative=218,68,83 #ForegroundNeutral=246,116,0 ForegroundNormal=252,252,252 #ForegroundPositive=39,174,96 #ForegroundVisited=155,89,182 [Colors:Tooltip] BackgroundAlternate=42,46,50 BackgroundNormal=49,54,59 #DecorationFocus=61,174,233 #DecorationHover=61,174,233 #ForegroundActive=61,174,233 ForegroundInactive=161,169,177 #ForegroundLink=29,153,243 ForegroundNegative=218,68,83 #ForegroundNeutral=246,116,0 ForegroundNormal=252,252,252 #ForegroundPositive=39,174,96 #ForegroundVisited=155,89,182 [Colors:View] BackgroundAlternate=0,0,0 BackgroundNormal=0,0,0 #DecorationFocus=61,174,233 #DecorationHover=61,174,233 #ForegroundActive=61,174,233 ForegroundInactive=161,169,177 #ForegroundLink=29,153,243 ForegroundNegative=218,68,83 #ForegroundNeutral=246,116,0 ForegroundNormal=252,252,252 #ForegroundPositive=39,174,96 #ForegroundVisited=155,89,182 [Colors:Window] BackgroundAlternate=0,0,0 BackgroundNormal=0,0,0 #DecorationFocus=61,174,233 #DecorationHover=61,174,233 #ForegroundActive=61,174,233 ForegroundInactive=161,169,177 #ForegroundLink=29,153,243 ForegroundNegative=218,68,83 #ForegroundNeutral=246,116,0 ForegroundNormal=252,252,252 #ForegroundPositive=39,174,96 #ForegroundVisited=155,89,182 [General] ColorScheme=Breeze Dark Name=Breeze Dark shadeSortColumn=true [KDE] contrast=4 [WM] activeBackground=49,54,59 activeBlend=252,252,252 activeForeground=252,252,252 inactiveBackground=42,46,50 inactiveBlend=161,169,177 inactiveForeground=161,169,177
Created attachment 147047 [details] my breeze dark "color" file
Created attachment 147048 [details] my breeze light "color" file I attached my two versions of the breeze "color" files (dark and light).
I just remove the lines with "61,174,233" as the value and it sort of worked. The problem I have with my fix is that it doesn't apply a new accent color without reapplying the Plasma Theme
I have experimented with this method. I noticed that the whole Plasma theming has a cascading structure. So if you leave something out, it will be filled in by the "default" color scheme for plasma themes. And the default color scheme for plasma schemes uses the accent current accent color a lot. This way it is important to leave al lot to the default theme but not to much. I hope I succeeded in that. The fact that the plasma colors are not updated immediately with the system is not elegant. But imho that is a different matter.
I'm not arguing about how the theme works, I was just mentioning I got a similar result by removing fewer lines than you. Either way, this should've been fixed a while ago as the fix is just removing a couple of lines. Even if the Plasma Style isn't reapplying itself, it would offer something until it is properly fixed. Reapplying the Plasma Style shouldn't be an issue either, there's already something to that effect when a Plasma Style follows the color scheme, as it immediately picks the new accent color. The issue is making whatever that is work with any plasma style, regardless if the follows the full color scheme
Do either of you folks want to submit a merge request with your changes? https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/plasma-framework/-/merge_requests/
I think I will have to pass, I'm struggling to understand how GitLab works, the documentation on kde.org just makes me more confused by assuming I want to make changes that need the project to compile on my computer. The GitLab itself is also very confusing in a way that makes me doubt if I'm not screwing things up. I'd rather let an experienced member do necessary changes. As I said, just remove the lines with the value "61,174,233" in the colors file of /usr/share/plasma/desktoptheme/breeze-light/ and /usr/share/plasma/desktoptheme/breeze-dark/. If I missed something else, then follow the suggestions made by PK.
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/plasma-framework/-/merge_requests/481
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This is still broken in Plasma 5.26.5.
Still broken in Plasma 5.27.4
Hi, I'm on Tuxedo OS 2 with KDE Plasma 5.27.6 I can confirm bug is still present. Following the steps shown in Comment #12 seems to fix the issue. I've changed folder name to avoid overwriting existing breeze themes. The "selected" background color in application launcher seems a bit to intense like if on default Breeze theme the opacity gets reduced a bit, while with this hack it uses full color. But it may be just an impression because the color changes when item is hovered (more intense) and when is not (darker, less intense)
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Still present in 6.0.3. It took me a long time to realize this was the issue, even though in Plasma Style settings it is clearly marked which themes follow the color scheme and which not. It is just something I do not associate with the accent color.