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by cameronbrown 2504 days ago
And then we end up in GTK hell: https://stopthemingmy.app/

At least the web platform is open enough to do this and still function.

2 comments

>The problem we’re facing is the expectation that apps can be arbitrarily restyled without manual work, which is and has always been an illusion.

Except for working pretty well on most apps

>However, if you change things like stylesheets and icons, you should be aware that you’re in unsupported territory. Any issues you encounter should be reported to the theme developer, not the app developer.

Themes are rarely problematic and it would take 10 seconds to check if one supposed it to be problematic.

They could perhaps work on solving actual problems.

That's really not a hard problem to solve though, as an application developer you can just have a default theme for your app, and have some checkbox somewhere letting the user use their OS theme instead of the app default.

Or you can just accept that whenever you let someone configure the UI in an advanced way, it is possible for them to make the UI more confusing. Just because it is possible for someone to mess up your app with a bad config, doesn't mean it is best to remove any kind of configuration at all.