Dear software companies,

As much as I appreciate all the dark themes being used lately either as default, or added as options (Youtube, Discord, Postman, Windows Explorer, etc)... you guys still suck at theming.

A #000 background with #fff font is almost as bad as the reverse. Too much contrast! Then there are some apps which use grayish tones, others brown/orange stuff... pretty ugly if you use it all next to each other.

So how about just adding good theming support? Or even better: what about a global theming standard, a styling preference, a system wide json file which defines UI elements for all apps?

@fuck2code Indeed. We need some unifying standard, but that would be pretty hard to set up.

There would be to be a way for browsers & electronjs apps to translate your preferences into styling sheets, and then there's native apps on half a dozen platforms. Then there's the problem that every app has different ideas about UI elements, and in many cases you want different states for buttons and inputs, so you don't always want to override everything.

But I can dream.

Until then, I'd really appreciate it if every app came with basic theming support — especially Electron apps should just contain an "select css file" option.

Before modern web-based apps, most apps on a given OS had similar look and feel, but every OS was different.

Now, we have apps that look the same across OSes, but every app is different.

I would like to hug you for this