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▲ N_Lens 4 days ago

Your comment kind of reminds me of old school Winamp and its skins.

▲EGreg 4 days ago | parent [-]

Someone’s never used the old MacOS before OS X. Anyone remember Kaleidoscope?

Someone’s never used Windows before Vista. Remember how themeable XP was across all apps?

We had standard OS controls, that’s why all that worked. The web has… extreme customization per website.

▲skydhash 4 days ago | parent [-]

Customization was ok for the web because it was documents and forms. But then they bring those ideas inside the desktop space where you used to have consistent interfaces for your computation.

▲tracker1 3 days ago | parent [-]

I kind of wish that the OS provided to the browser the following pieces of theme information...

    1. is dark mode
    2. primary background color
    3. primary forground (text) color
    4. primary accent color
    5. secondary accent color
    6. warning accent color
    7. danger accent color
Then the application could use those to apply overall skin/theme to the web application(s). However, you will still have those sites/apps that want their own. The biggest example imo is Slack.

Even material or fluent are similar enough that applications using either tools with the above values for an overall theme would be easy enough to apply throughout an application.