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Support themes from the Chrome Web Store - Discussion
Elliot Kirk It gives a different feel to the browsing experience.
Transparency, pictures and colour would be nice!
- IrinaL
Microsoft
noahdsmith and others on the thread... Could you give us more detail on what you mean by "transparency, pictures, and colour"? Which areas of the browser are you expecting to be affected by those elements and what would be helpful/visually pleasing to see? How are you expecting to customize your browser? Which areas of the browser or functionality would you find not useful?
IrinaL wrote:noahdsmith and others on the thread... Could you give us more detail on what you mean by "transparency, pictures, and colour"? Which areas of the browser are you expecting to be affected by those elements and what would be helpful/visually pleasing to see? How are you expecting to customize your browser? Which areas of the browser or functionality would you find not useful?
I would like to see it in the background (just like the old Edge in HotCakeX 's pictures) and in the other tabs that aren't the one that is currently in use. It really should just be the entire top bar, but just not the current tab.
IrinaL For me, I'm more of an accent color themer. This new accent color would affect:
1) the tab bar (must)
2) URL bar area (must)
3) the menus (including right-click) and internal pages (must)
Essentially, wherever light vs dark mode affect. Themes would just have another color (or pattern) instead of Light mode's light gray / Dark mode's dark gray.
One thing I'd actually LOVE: Chromium Edge to sync its accent color with your desktop wallpaper!
Blue-heavy wallpaper -> all the UI has a blue accent
I really love this feature as I have Windows 10 Spotlight to cycle my background photo each day and Windows 10's UI automatically picks an accent color from the current wallpaper. Could Chromium Edge do the same? Is that even possible, i.e., to read the current accent color from the OS? This might be a Windows-10-only , however, but...for me, I'm all in.
Honestly, for me, this would be more important than other customization (though I still support more and supporting actual Chrome themes).
ikjadoon Related to this (maybe a bug?): for people with crappy TN panels, when we select the Windows 10 theme to apply also to "Title Bars", the color contrast (text color -> background color) isn't great when hovering over inactive tab.
With this dark blue background + "Apply Accent color to Title Bars" + Chromium Edge Light theme, the text hover color on the tab bar is nigh unreadable on a crappy TN panel, but readable enough on a high quality IPS:
No hovering of inactive tabs = mostly readable text
Hovering of inactive tabs = much less readable text (low color contrast: black text vs dark blue background)
These screenshots don't quite do the issue justice since that text is quite small: when it's artificially enlarged here, the text is more readable.
I suppose colours would be the most basic and most broad one - the top bar, tabs and menus (like right-click) would have a two-tone colour scheme, maybe even being able to pick the two colours, and maybe another colour for the icon lines.
A transparency option would then add to this, in being able to pick how transparent these elements became.
Pictures-wise, most of the time a picture would fill behind the menu bar and tabs, but it might be nice for some people to see the whole picture on the new tab page (though not much time is spent here).
