What's up with themes
| I usually prefer to spend time doing other things, breeze dark is like a decent visually consistent default so eh
Exception is the terminal where I like pastels and non black backgrounds for some reason
| Well, despite there still are theme-incompatible GUI engines, most notably GTK and QT and countless inconsistent HTML/JS/CSS frontends (most notably Android), the generalization of GUI theming improved a lot in the last years - at least in the (F)OSS realm.
The more proprietary software i got rid off in the past years, the less work I had to put work into theming. Flatpak for example makes many apps use your current desktops "file picker", which is pretty awesome.
| LLMs will fix this
| >>1108441
My point is that every program should be skinnable independently. I usually pair a parchment-like background with text to reduce contrast, but i wouldn't want it in terminals or editing windows. Despite a mostly consistent color palette my themes end up with lots of quirks for usability, like links in my browser having higher saturation than in my pdf reader.
Idiosyncratic themes also give an interface a lot of personality. Remember the godawful look lynxchan comes with?
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| that come as massive standalone apps. At least solarized was a ubiquitous preset, but now it feels like everyone is talking about catpuccin, which distributes everything as a giant github monorepo.
And what happened to people styling the applications they use in general? Is it simply no longer a thing they do aside from waifu branding a desktop or posting "rices" for reddit karma? I personally skin every one of my programs to vaguely resemble yotsuba theme btw.