[dale_glass]

Not surprising, since I believe Firefox gave everyone the Colorways screen when that feature showed up, but nothing equivalent happened whenever it went away.

My current desktop has been Fedora since Fedora 16, and I just upgraded from one release to the next continuously. So yes, whatever choice I made back in 2013 is just going to stick around on my current machine unless it goes away entirely or I manually change it. Colors are just not that important, if I like it well enough, it's going to stick around forever.

The only one that caused intense feelings in me was the "Dreamer – Bold" theme that caused a fair amount of confusion about why the heck couldn't I tell which tab was active, and what could be possibly broken. Because it never occurred to me that the theme could be designed that way intentionally.

[dao-]

> Not surprising, since I believe Firefox gave everyone the Colorways screen when that feature showed up,

Right, I assume that's what the parent comment meant by "force-fed to us." That screen was indeed the whole point: It made the theming feature visible and accessible to the average users.

[albedoa]

Okay? The thing that you force-fed users saw good adoption. Imagine that.

[dao-]

Drop the hyperbole for a second. It was a choice screen, a far cry from force-feeding. I'll grant you, somewhat wide adoption is almost a given when putting this kind of UI in front of all users, but that still doesn't mean that it was a mistake or a net loss to give folks who wouldn't normally customize Firefox a chance to do so. So, what's your point?

[Y_Y]

It was something I didn't want, put between me and my browser, because someone at Mozilla decided they wanted wveryone to stop what they were doing and pay attention to this new method of self expression. If it wasn't a big deal them why do I still care about it? Maybe I should just change my desktop theme until I feel better.

[albedoa]

> So, what's your point?

What? It's the one you conceded:

> I'll grant you, somewhat wide adoption is almost a given when putting this kind of UI in front of all users

I see now that "force-fed" is hyperbole. It was merely "put in front of all users". And then the thing that happens when you put this kind of UI in front of all users happened.

Thanks!