[feature request] ability to tweak the panel a bit more

[blind-confused]

one thing I'm personally missing from gnome is bold font for all elements of the panel, and having the panel be full black (#000000). Would be especially great if it was able to stay that way regardless of what colours I chose for the rest of the interface. Would this be something you'd consider implementing? Would this even be possible?

[blind-confused]

it would also be great to be able to change system fonts in general; although I suppose this functionality is probably going to be added to cosmic later (? not 100% sure)

[edfloreshz]

I'm sure setting the panel to full black is already possible, system font and bold text is going to be added to COSMIC at some point.

[blind-confused]

I'm sure setting the panel to full black is already possible, system font and bold text is going to be added to COSMIC at some point.

it is possible, but then you have to make everything else in the interface full black too, which doesn't look great at all. That's why I made the request - I would love that colouring to just be for the panel and nothing else. Same for the bold text - I'm not sure if we'll get it specifically for the panel (without making everything else bold). Although we could wait, perhaps they'll add it. They just said recently that there are some settings that they prefer if people did in their community apps, instead of themselves doing it. That's why I have doubts.

[edfloreshz]

Please ask them on Mattermost, if the team at S76 plans to allow this in the future there's no point on implementing it here.

If they do no want/plan to work on that, I'm sure we can come up with something here.

[blind-confused]

I'm sorry, there are some issues preventing me from using Mattermost. I tried asking about it on their official Discord, but there was no answer, perhaps it's because there are lots of messages there everyday (and few System76 employees that are often online there), or they are unsure of their plans yet, I don't know. I guess we can wait until the first full release and see whether they add the features or not.

[edfloreshz]

I went ahead and asked them:

We are thinking about allowing theme-overriddes for every libcosmic app by creating a <app_id>.Theme cosmic-config folder (mimic'ing our Theme config). But I don't think anything like that will be exposed in the settings UI. Maybe for the panel? But that hasn't been discussed before and would need to go through our UX team. This was meant as a config-only setting for people wanting deeper customization.

Note: I personally think cosmic-tweaks is a good project to prototype the UX of these settings. We might take inspiration in later releases and adapt it. But settings in general is mostly done for the first release except for the still missing pages. I don't think cosmic-tweaks will be immediately superseeded by an official way to set this option, if you decide to include it.

Based on this, I think we could wait for this per app theming capabilities are implemented or we could try to implement it here.

[blind-confused]

Based on this, I think we could wait for this per app theming capabilities are implemented or we could try to implement it here.

I'll leave the choice up to you; it would be nice to have this, but I don't wanna insist either, it's optional :)

[edfloreshz]

I'll keep the issue open and get to it at some point.