1869893 - Explore the possibility of using OS accent colors for primary buttons

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Theme, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Alessandro Castellani [:aleca]]

Now that our CSS is in a much better state, with a lot of clean up still underway allowing us to more easily control colours from a single CSS variable files, we can experiment with adding OS AccentColor in a sensitive way, without destroying a11y and readability.

Let's start with a very simple and self contained experiment affecting only primary buttons.

Comment 1

[Alessandro Castellani [:aleca]]

Attachment: Bug 1869893 - Implement AccentColor for primary buttons and tab line indicator. r=#thunderbird-front-end-reviewers

Comment 2

[Alessandro Castellani [:aleca]]

Attachment: Screenshot 2023-12-13 135607.png

Small preview of how Windows react to this.

Comment 3

[[e-mail]]

Attachment: CleanShot 2023-12-13 at [e-mail]

A preview of how macOS reacts to this.

Comment 4

[Richard Marti (:Paenglab)]

Attachment: Bug 1869893 - Implement AccentColor for primary buttons and radio/checkbox in themeableDialog. r=#thunderbird-front-end-reviewers

Comment 5

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/aed65a2d35ba
Implement AccentColor for primary buttons and tab line indicator. r=Paenglab,freaktechnik
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/6ac9edcfd8a9
Implement AccentColor for primary buttons and radio/checkbox in themeableDialog. r=aleca