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Support themes from the Chrome Web Store - Discussion
Microsoftnoahdsmith 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 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.