SUMMARY *** The option in color scheme settings to "Make window titlebars accent-colored" works rather inconsistently. *** STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. System Settings > Color 2. Edit a color scheme 3. Options > Make window titlebars accent-colored OBSERVED RESULT - In general, it doesn't work for the accent color from the current color scheme (I would expect Breeze Blue to be used for this option with the Breeze themes). - For copies of Breeze Light and Breeze dark with the option enabled, it applies the color not only to the titlebar but also to the header. - For Breeze Light and Breeze Dark, it applies a fainter version also to inactive windows, whereas for Breeze Classic, inactive windows keep their original background color. - Whenever the the color is applied to the active window, it doesn't use the actual accent color, but some fainter version of it. EXPECTED RESULT - The accent color gets applied in its original version to the titlebar of the active window and possibly in a more finted version to inactive windows, and regardless of which accent color mode or which base color scheme is used. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Arch Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.26.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.101.0 Qt Version: 5.15.8 Kernel Version: 6.1.5-arch2-1 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11
#1 is a bug, others are intended as side effects of those color schemes using Header Colors to unify the titlebar and toolbar appearance.
For 2 and 4, if this is intentional I find it slightly misleadingly worded in the options. (I thought it was a bug anyway.) What's the reason for 3? That difference between themes seems pretty unpredictable to me.
3 is also intentional so that there's a visual change when the window becomes inactive. The thing that got accent-color (whatever it is, whether it's the titlebar only, or the titlebar and toolbar) de-saturates to preserve that visual change for inactive windows. I think the confusion would be reduced with a simple wording change: Bug 455809.
> The thing that got accent-color (whatever it is, whether it's the titlebar only, or the titlebar and toolbar) de-saturates to preserve that visual change for inactive windows. But it doesn't do that in Breeze Classic. It uses the background color, not the desaturated accent color.
That's true, we probably should make that consistent one way or the other. Please file a new bug report for it.
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465593