Give libadwaita applications the desktop's accent

Files, Papers, Loupe and every other libadwaita application read their
accent from the Settings portal, so they rendered in GNOME blue no
matter which accent this desktop was set to -- correct on our own
surfaces, wrong on half the screen.

xdg-desktop-portal-gtk cannot serve org.freedesktop.appearance
accent-color at all; the string does not appear in the 1.15.3 binary.
The gnome backend serves it, so Settings now routes to gnome with gtk
still listed behind it -- the frontend merges Settings backends in
order, so color-scheme keeps resolving if the gnome backend is ever
unavailable.

GNOME's accent-color is a fixed enum of nine names rather than a color,
so each of our eight accents carries its nearest member. Nearest by hue
rather than by name: rose maps to red, because it is the red role in
this palette.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BRvzt4H8XXLPVH5MyYdk9L
This commit is contained in:
Gabriel Brown
2026-08-19 09:31:50 -04:00
parent 1b94af1163
commit 91306ce810
5 changed files with 198 additions and 18 deletions
@@ -204,6 +204,46 @@ for gtk_version in 3.0 4.0; do
fi
done
# ── libadwaita accent ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
# Files, Papers, Loupe and every other libadwaita application read their accent
# from the Settings portal, not from anything Panama draws, so without this they
# render in GNOME blue no matter which accent the desktop is set to.
#
# GNOME's accent-color is a FIXED enum of nine names -- there is no hex here to
# match, only a nearest member to pick -- so this maps our eight to theirs. Kept
# in sync by hand with config/Theme.qml's `gnome` field, for the same reason
# accent_hex() above is: there is no shared source between QML and shell.
#
# The portal must route Settings to the gnome backend for this to reach
# anything; xdg-desktop-portal-gtk cannot serve accent-color at all. See
# config/dot/xdg-desktop-portal/hyprland-portals.conf.
gnome_accent() {
case "$1" in
orchid) printf 'purple' ;;
teal) printf 'teal' ;;
green) printf 'green' ;;
amber) printf 'yellow' ;;
orange) printf 'orange' ;;
rose) printf 'red' ;;
slate) printf 'slate' ;;
*) printf 'blue' ;;
esac
}
status_adwaita="skipped"
if command -v gsettings >/dev/null 2>&1; then
adwaita_accent="$(gnome_accent "$accent")"
# Writing the same value emits no change signal, so applications already
# showing this accent are not asked to restyle for nothing.
if [[ "$(gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface accent-color 2>/dev/null)" == "'$adwaita_accent'" ]]; then
status_adwaita="unchanged"
elif gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface accent-color "$adwaita_accent" 2>/dev/null; then
status_adwaita="$adwaita_accent"
else
status_adwaita="failed"
fi
fi
kitty_dir="${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/kitty"
theme_file="$kitty_dir/themes/tokyonight-moon.conf"
[[ "$scheme" == "light" ]] && theme_file="$kitty_dir/themes/tokyonight-day.conf"
@@ -250,4 +290,5 @@ jq -cn \
--arg btop "$status_btop" \
--arg tmux "$status_tmux" \
--arg hyprlock "$status_hyprlock" \
'{scheme: $scheme, kitty: $kitty, gtk: $gtk, btop: $btop, tmux: $tmux, hyprlock: $hyprlock}'
--arg adwaita "$status_adwaita" \
'{scheme: $scheme, kitty: $kitty, gtk: $gtk, btop: $btop, tmux: $tmux, hyprlock: $hyprlock, adwaita: $adwaita}'