I just want to be sure… I don’t care of matérial you dynamic colors, but this blue is TOO horrible. It remind me Microsoft color, and I don’t use Microsoft because they disgusted me by a lot.
So, is there a way to change this color? I tried adb without luck.
Is this totally locked? If yes, and even if everything else is good enough for me, I think I will return the phone as I am in the 14 days windows. I really hate this blue windows color… I have not switched to Linux to see this horrible color every days.
I would have accepted green, brown, orange, red… even a darker blue…
But this blue, it is very very close to windows blue.
Why did they remove the adb commands? why putting work to remove something that is not even in the options? Why when you argue that the OS is about recovering freedom?
I really don’t understand. Even cinnamon was good enough.
EDIT: and it seems that font cannot be changed… (fresh new phone, impossible to change the font)…. I don’t think I will keep the OS, just because it is just ugly. So I would have no pleasure to use this phone, on contrary. It may sound stupid, but I really cannot think I can use the phone with an ugly font and a ugly accent color.
“why?” - reason is historic, when the project started out there were no accent colors and lots of FOSS apps didn’t look coherent, so one color got enforced. If the project would start now with the current material-you things would be different.
The dislike of a particular hue is a great reason to say no to something
I also posted this in GitLab as an argument for changing the fixed accent colour, but I thought posting it here might also be fruitful, so here it is:
I would also like to point out that surface level customisation like wallpapers and accent colours are something a lot of users like. As I gathered from forum postings, /e/OS’s focus is on less tech savy users who are not too techy and like to have defaults presented, which is why /e/ packs so many default apps to make the transition easier. From my experience, a lot of non-tech-savvy users still like to give their phone some individual touch because this is the extend they are used to individualise and customise their phone (hence the extensive accent colour options in Google Android).
Also, I have read in posts in the forum that the goal is also that tech-savvy users will not be hindered or blocked to do with their devices what they like to do. But since the accent colour costumisation is even deactivated in adb-commands, I feel like this goal is not achieved.
This is not to blame past decisions. If there were bugs in the past, this decision of course made sense at the time even if I personally do not like the decision. But I feel like it might be time to reevaluate that decision and give users some more options to make their devices their own.
so maybe the /e/OS developers will reconsider the accent color option in the future.