Accent colors provide a way for users to personalize their desktop in a simple, developer-friendly, and effective way. Throughout the community there has been a general interest in the inclusion of accent colors within apps and desktop environments. This proposal aims to standardize an accent color key on the Settings portal.
A new key on the Settings portal,
accent-color
, would be defined under theorg.freedesktop.appearance
namespace.
And endorsed by #GNOME, #KDE, #CosmicDE, #ElementaryOS, and #Budgie, at that!
Per this:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/2.Process.html#how-patches-get-into-the-kernel
While there are top level maintainers for the subsystems, it looks like Linus is the only one who can merge them into the mainline kernel.
Ah, makes sense! That’s a great read, I’ve been meaning to read more into their development process!