Bug 514226 - It is hard to find the focused window with the default bright/dark themes. Proposed solution
Summary: It is hard to find the focused window with the default bright/dark themes. Pr...
Status: RESOLVED MOVED
Alias: None
Product: Breeze
Classification: Plasma
Component: Color scheme (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 6.5.4
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
URL: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-...
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Reported: 2026-01-06 14:11 UTC by Jens
Modified: 2026-01-06 23:07 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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bright theme with blue accent color in title bar (17.38 KB, image/png)
2026-01-06 14:11 UTC, Jens
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dark theme with blue accent color in title bar (18.32 KB, image/png)
2026-01-06 14:12 UTC, Jens
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Description Jens 2026-01-06 14:11:30 UTC
Created attachment 188267 [details]
bright theme with blue accent color in title bar

SUMMARY: 
Th default Breeze bright/dark color schemes do not highlight active windows noticeably, they just get a *slightly* different shade of grey.

Suggestion: Change the default bright/dark themes to have an accent color and to use this to color the title bars of active windows. Like shown in the attachment. This makes it far easier to find an active window with both dark and bright schemes.
Also, let users specify which color scheme should be used as a bright and dark theme when automatic day/night theme change is activated. Currently, this works only with the default two themes (as far as I can tell).

Operating System: KDE neon User Edition
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.21.0
Qt Version: 6.10.1
Kernel Version: 6.14.0-37-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS w/ Radeon 780M Graphics
Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (30.6 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon 780M Graphics
Comment 1 Jens 2026-01-06 14:12:38 UTC
Created attachment 188269 [details]
dark theme with blue accent color in title bar
Comment 2 cwo 2026-01-06 17:35:18 UTC
> Also, let users specify which color scheme should be used as a bright and dark theme when automatic day/night theme change is activated. Currently, this works only with the default two themes (as far as I can tell).

You can control this in System Settings: Quick Settings, by pressing the dropdown arrow next to the theme. You'll get a dropdown menu of the available dark or light themes

Or in Global themes, by clicking the theme icon - it'll show a page with the available menus.
Comment 3 Jens 2026-01-06 19:44:35 UTC
Thanks - but I meant color schemes, not system themes.
For example for the automatic day/night rotation I'd like to use "Breeze" with my custom color scheme and "Breeze Dark" also with an adjusted color scheme.
Is this possible? I couldn't find it.
Comment 4 cwo 2026-01-06 20:02:56 UTC
(In reply to Jens from comment #3)
> Is this possible? I couldn't find it.

No, you can only choose global themes.

But in 6.6, you'll be able to save your current configuration as a global theme directly from the theme selector, so you can put it the way you want it and easily save that, then set it as the option to switch to.

(You can already make a global theme yourself in 6.5 and earlier, but it's a bit more involved, so it's much easier in 6.6)
Comment 5 Jens 2026-01-06 20:53:52 UTC
Thank you!
Then I'll wait for 6.6, looking forward to it 🙂
Comment 6 Nate Graham 2026-01-06 23:07:46 UTC
Yep, this is pretty much the solution we agreed to in https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/issues/78. Someone just needs to do it and hammer out the inevitable bugs that it exposes.

Note that doing this would highlight the difference between SSD-using apps and CSD_using apps, because the CSD-using apps would not change their colors in the same way. So it might actually be a slightly worse solution for people using a lot of CSD apps. But we'll have to cross that bridge when we come to it.