Some applications (notably recent versions of Chrome) now do not provide settings for specifying whether to use dark or light mode and instead just use system theme. This presents issues for users such as myself who wish for specific applications to differ from the system default. I would like to suggest a settings menu for specifying overrides such that individual applications can be told that the system is in light or dark mode regardless of the truth.
As a temporary and buggy fix I have found that setting the gnome color-scheme (gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface color-scheme prefer-light) after selecting dark mode in the settings will cause applications to behave as though the system is in light mode while most of the system UI remains dark. This allows me to force Chrome into light mode, which has accessibility benefits, but other applications also then default to light mode. Thankfully many have options to ignore the system default, as did Chrome until recently.
It is possible this feature request is better redirected to cosmic-epoch, but since I have observed this issue in gnome and have never used epoch, I thought it more appropriate to submit here.
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Some applications (notably recent versions of Chrome) now do not provide settings for specifying whether to use dark or light mode and instead just use system theme. This presents issues for users such as myself who wish for specific applications to differ from the system default. I would like to suggest a settings menu for specifying overrides such that individual applications can be told that the system is in light or dark mode regardless of the truth.
As a temporary and buggy fix I have found that setting the gnome color-scheme (
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface color-scheme prefer-light) after selecting dark mode in the settings will cause applications to behave as though the system is in light mode while most of the system UI remains dark. This allows me to force Chrome into light mode, which has accessibility benefits, but other applications also then default to light mode. Thankfully many have options to ignore the system default, as did Chrome until recently.It is possible this feature request is better redirected to cosmic-epoch, but since I have observed this issue in gnome and have never used epoch, I thought it more appropriate to submit here.
Hopefully this issue conforms to your standards, but feel free to edit or delete it as required.