Bug#1105056: gdm3: coordinate accent colour with ceratopsian theme for trixie?

Jeremy Bícha jeremy.bicha at canonical.com
Sat May 10 15:55:58 BST 2025


On Sat, May 10, 2025 at 10:21 AM Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> wrote:
> It's chosen from a limited palette of presets rather than being
> arbitrarily configurable, but the "teal" and "slate" choices look
> vaguely similar to the Ceratopsian theme. For example we could set up
> the default /etc/gdm3/greeter.dconf-defaults to include these
> uncommented lines:
>
>     [org/gnome/desktop/interface]
>     accent-color='teal'
>
> This affects the highlights in the System and Accessibility menus (top
> right corner), the highlight on today's date in the calendar, the focus
> rectangle around the selected user, and the focus rectangle around other
> active widgets like the password entry box, replacing the default
> sky blue:
>
> https://people.debian.org/~smcv/temp/2025/trixie-branding/teal-accent.png
>
>     smcv

For consistency, what about changing it in the user session instead?
If done in gsettings-desktop-schemas, it should automatically apply to
the login screen too.

https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gsettings-desktop-schemas/-/blob/debian/latest/debian/gsettings-desktop-schemas.gsettings-override

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha



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