Created attachment 168336 [details] KDE overuse of blue blends everything making all hard to regognize Step one: open attatchment, then continue reading. SUMMARY *** According to American Academy of Ophthalmology humans can distinguish up to 10.000.000 colors. KDE uses one- Blue: All Application - Blue Development - Blue Graphics - Blue Internet - Blue Multimedia - Blue Office - Blue Pager/Desktop Switcher - Blue Folder Icons - Blue Highlight Color - Blue Calligra Stage - Blue digiKam - Blue Discover - Blue Dolphin - Blue Info Center - Blue Kate - Blue KDE Itinerary - Blue KFind - Blue KMail - Blue Kmail Header Theme Editor - Blue Konqueror - Blue KTNef - Blue KTorrent - Blue SieveEditor - Blue ... Pager/Desktop Switcher - Blue Dolphin inside (incl. info elements at the bottom info panel) - Blue Konqueror inside - Blue The first (an many others) wallpaper (Altai, Elarun, Ice Cold, Flyig Konqui, Cascade, Darkest Hour...) - Blue Highlighting/Accent Colors - Blue ... Add some external ones (Librewolf, LibreOffice Writer, SMPlayer, Chromium) and all is exclusively blue. This huge overuse of blue, throughout the whole KDE, blends everything together and makes individual items hard to recognize. And blue LCD light is bad for your eyes too (...). *** STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Open attached screenshot (a picture is worth a thousand words), where there are only KDE elements shown (no external apps); 2. Find an individual item by remembering its color, just like you would, subconsciously, without thinking, do with Firefox (bright orange). OBSERVED RESULT All items are blended together and very hard to distinguish from one another. EXPECTED RESULT Remove all mono-color (blue) elements in KDE and color code menus and elements to be quickly (one glance, no thinking, no reading) recognizable and findable. Examples how it could be fixed: Multimedia (App Lanucher menu) and multimedia software from KDE Gears (e.g Elisa) - Green Graphics (App Lanucher menu) and graphics software from KDE Gears (e.g. Gwenview)- Red Internet (App Lanucher menu) and internet software from KDE Gears (e.g. Konqueror) - Orange KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.0.0 Qt Version: 6.6.3 Graphics Platform: X11/Wayland Graphics GPU: Intel HD
Thanks for the report. There's definitely something to the fact that a lot of Breeze app icons favor the blue color, but I think you have to admit that the situation that your screenshot depicts is largely self-inflicted. You're using a non-default wallpaper and have deliberately created a grid and row of mostly-blue KDE app icons. Plasma 6's current wallpaper has almost no blue in it at all ans there are plenty of non-blue KDE app icons amomng the most common apps, including Gwenview, Spectacle, Konsole, System Settings, KWrite, Elisa, System Monitor, Ark, Filelight, KCalc, Partition Manager, Kolourpaint...