[plasmashell] [Bug 452120] New: Allow the user to select a different Color Scheme for Plasma Style than the one used for Application Style, and even force it.

[WS]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=452120

            Bug ID: 452120
           Summary: Allow the user to select a different Color Scheme for
                    Plasma Style than the one used for Application Style,
                    and even force it.
           Product: plasmashell
           Version: 5.24.3
          Platform: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: Theme - Breeze
          Assignee: plasma-bugs at kde.org
          Reporter: ws.kde at outlook.com
                CC: visual-design at kde.org
  Target Milestone: 1.0

SUMMARY

This would hugely simplify a couple of problems with the current model:

1. The biggest one is that a couple of Plasma Styles only exist to force a
different color scheme from the one used in Application Styles.

2. Breeze Dark and Breeze Light (both Plasma Styles) both exists for that only
purpose. The only significant difference between them and the original is that
they force the Breeze Dark/Light(Color Scheme) into Breeze (Plasma Style). They
could be removed with my proposal.

3. It would help reduce basic maintenance. Currently, the Color file from
Breeze Dark(Plasma Style) differs in one or two lines from the Breeze Dark
Color Scheme, this doesn't appear to be intentional. Each time a Color Scheme
is updated, KDE Devs need to remind themselves of also updating the color file
inside those Plasma Styles variants. My proposal eliminates the need for that.

4. Every time some new feature is added to Color Schemes, dev time is lost
trying to reimplement it in a way that plays nicely with Plasma Styles. The
most recent example is the accent color feature, which is currently not working
with Breeze Dark/Light, the required fix isn't merely updating the color file,
but changing how Plasma Styles are updated. This (probably) wouldn't be the
case if the user could just use the default Breeze (Plasma Style) and select
manually select it's color scheme to be different from the one used in
Application Style, as the default breeze (Plasma Style) plays nicely with the
accent color feature. This could help simplify the implementation of a
scheduled Dark and Light Mode for users that don't use breeze for either Color
Scheme or Plasma Style

5. Users would be able to create more colorful variants of Plasma Styles by
simply changing which color scheme it is using. They could even just edit the
Color Scheme themselves, as KDE has a useful GUI tool for that integrated into
System Settings. They can do this now, but they need to fork a Style and
manually replace the Color file with the one they created, it also lacks visual
feedback.

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