Reasons why being able to put a theme on your OS is necessary for it to be accessible
Different people have different accessibility needs; it is impossible to make a single theme that everyone can use
Some accessibility needs are incompatible with others, so having only one or even two "accessibility" modes can't cut it (e.g. dark + high-contrast theme)
The "accessibility" themes are the least tested and most buggy ones; so preventing users from adding themes means we're stuck with the bugs
Reasons why being able to put a theme on your OS is necessary for it to be accessible
Anyway, that's why when people say this kind of bullshit: https://stopthemingmy.app/
What I hear is "If you don't have perfect eyesight or the normal kinds of vision problems, we want you to be excluded"
re: Reasons why being able to put a theme on your OS is necessary for it to be accessible
@researchfairy "Changing an app’s icon denies the developer the possibility to control their brand."
Oh no! Not my fucking brand!
Oh no! Not my fucking brand!
re: Reasons why being able to put a theme on your OS is necessary for it to be accessible
@Kuniti_shino @researchfairy I havent look at that website for a long while now, but from what I remember, they arent a group of devs against themeing at all though- they want user customisability, they just dont want distributions which package their software to theme them, which i think I find reasonable? Ubuntu forcing its default theme onto all gtk4 apps is bad?
re: Reasons why being able to put a theme on your OS is necessary for it to be accessible
@piuvas @Kuniti_shino @researchfairy Oh yeah exactly, I think we had this exact discussion at some point, but themeing should be a user choice, but also it isnt the original dev's issue to deal with unsupported configs, I do generally agree even as a """maintainer""" of an icon pack for linux
~also oh hi piuvas! been a while!~
~also oh hi piuvas! been a while!~
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