dimitriskp22 / custom-accent-colors

A GNOME Shell Extension that provides 7 Custom Accent Colors. The selected Accent Color can be applied to GTK4/GTK3 apps and the Gnome Shell.

Custom Accent Colors

A GNOME Shell Extension that provides 7 Custom Accent Colors. The selected Accent Color can be applied to GTK4/GTK3 apps and the Gnome Shell.

You can install this extension from extensions.gnome.org.

Building

Clone the repository or download the branch from Github, a simple Makefile is included.

Next use make && make install to install the extension into your home directory.

custom-accent-colors's Issues

Not compatible with GNOME 46

The GNOME Shell Extensions website and GNOME Extensions app say that it's out of date.

After this extension Gradience doesnt working

I uninstalled this extension,but but still Gradience doesn't work

[QUESTION] Is it possible to appear on the settings page?

Hi, so is it possible to an extension to appear on a default gnome app as a setting, so we could easily acces our accent color set on the settings page, like elementary os?. Thank you

Does not customize colors in control center

Unfortunately my control center is still default blue while all toggles are green now.

Gnome-shell theming doesnt work

hi, so basically there is no gnome shell theme and when i try some sort of forced way i end up with this:

GNOME 45 support

There are breaking changes which will require a separate release for 45 and <=44:

See https://gjs.guide/extensions/upgrading/gnome-shell-45.html

workaround for overwritten gtk.css file

I was looking for a way to reenable the little stepper arrows in scrollbars on Manjaro Gnome and came across a quickfix where you add some CSS code to gtk.css.

This extension is installed and enabled by default in Manjaro Gnome and unfortunately always overwrites my changes to gtk.css upon restart. I've discussed the problem in the Manjaro Forum and was advised to ask for a workaround or tip. So here I am. :)

Is there some kind of workaround for the problem you can recommend? Maybe some other 'user file' where I could save these GTK CSS changes to without 'Custom Accent Colors' overwriting them?

(enhancement) Add pink.

Perhaps FFACC7 and FF8DC7.

Majaro, blue is green

The extension offers 9 colors, but the files (gnome-shell.css) generated by the extension are 8 because Blue (default) is supposed to be blue, but in Manjaro with Gnome 43 this color is the green of MAIA so it turns green.

Enhancements on shell ?

I wonder if it's possible to have a bit of transparency on the shell...
Don't know how but it could be cool on dialog boxes

The border of some input fields don't get styled with the chosen accent color on Gnome 46

I have chosen Maia as accent color. When a dialog comes up for entering credentials or when I activate the input field on the application overview, the borders of the input fields aren't styled with the chosen accent color anymore on Gnome 46.

[Feature Request] Change folder color

Would it be possible to change the folder color at the same time the accent color is changed? This could be accomplished using paprius-folders with the papirus-icon-theme.

[ MORE COLORS ] I want a "teal color" shell theme

tela icons, papirus icons and many other icon themes have teal folders which look great but I want a teal theme so that I can use the teal version of most of the icon packs... also ubuntu's yuru has a teal shell theme so as I use Arch I miss the teal shell

Set custom color feature

I think adding an option where you can pick a hex color would make the extension 2x as good. This is very much a feature request.

[Enhancement] Pink Color

Pink is a important cute color.
I think it would be great if we can have pink accent color!

Change accent color on login screen too

Hello,

Could it be possible to change the accent color on the login screen too?

Add a Pink preset

Can this extension have a pink preset in any future update?

[ Feature Request ] Color from Wallpaper.

Is it possible to fetch accent color from current wallpaper and use that as the accent color?
In Hyprland, I used pywal and a custom script to achieve the same.

(enhancement) Make green color a bit darker

Contrast with white letters seems to be too low making it harder to read, a darker tone should improve accessibility while still looking good

Feature Request: Add folders icons that follow the selected accent color

A recent project by @AtiusAmy has been developed, which basically provides adwaita folder icons (and the nautilus icon) that align with the accent colors of this extension. I am curious if there is a chance of integrating this icon theme like a feature for this extension

https://github.com/AtiusAmy/AdwaitaColors

Wallpaper accent color?

Hi. What do you think about adding a function to extract the accent color from a current desktop wallpaper automatically? It can be easily extracted using the 'node-vibrant' library.

import Vibrant from "node-vibrant";
const colors = await Vibrant.from(wallpaper).getPalette();
const accentColor = colors.LightVibrant;

Sorry for the duplicate, just wanted to show an easy solution for this.

where is the light theme support?

It only works with dark themes.

Need stronger difference between off and on gray toggles

Hello,

The difference of grey is very light between a "toggle off" and a "toggle on" so the color doesn't help, only the position.

I would suggest the "toggle on" to be of the same color than the highlight color

(enhancement) Use Yellow 5 instead of Yellow 4

The GNOME-Shell itself currently uses dark mode, regardless of the users preferences, so it is kind of necessary to make sure the theme looks good in dark mode, and the yellow one is currently not looking good, because the yellow is to light to be used as the background for white Text. Also, people who use dark mode do have this problem not only in the shell, but also in other apps, so you should use a dark yellow. You currently use the second-darkest yellow, but it is still to light, so I would consider switching to Yellow 5 (e5a50a) wich is the darkest yellow available in the GNOME HIG. This request is like #7 but for yellow.

Thank you in advance!