@anselmschueler The only thing changing here is colors....

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@anselmschueler The only thing changing here is colors. For the light and dark style, app developers are expected to support those. The colors are the stable and can be relied on by developers. The accent colors are only used in specific spots and care is put into ensuring changing accent colors does not break apps.

The padding, borders, text style, and more are not changing when you change between light or dark styles or change accent colors. Those things can change drastically when you introduce full CSS theming.

Like 9 June at 19:21 | Open on crab.garden

4 comments

Anselm Schüler

@brainblasted I see. I would still call it theming though.

9 June at 19:23 | Open on ieji.de

Brage Fuglseth

@anselmschueler It's not arbitrary CSS restyling, at least. That's what people have defined "themes" as previously.

9 June at 21:05 | Open on fosstodon.org

Anselm Schüler

@bragefuglseth I always interpreted things like https://stopthemingmy.app/ as saying that app developers should have complete control over their app’s look, and a complete rejection of any overarching theming system.

9 June at 21:15 | Open on ieji.de

Brage Fuglseth

@anselmschueler If any sort of restyling was out of the picture, we wouldn't have light/dark mode either. This system still provides app developers with full control, as they can choose to opt out. If they don't, though, there is only a limited set of possible colors to account for, as opposed to an infinite amount of arbitrary CSS.

9 June at 21:16 | Open on fosstodon.org