Tiny feature request about light and dark mode

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Please can I make a small (hopefully!) feature request? One of the (few) nice things about Windows is that I can have a dark taskbar, but light application windows. It's how I like to work, for preference. It would be great if Zorin allowed the same thing.

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This is actually something I haven't thought about that much tbh. Although I typically run an XFCE ship, and that definitely has the ability to do this. I'm gonna take a peak later tonight and see what I can find.

Wouldn't be a bad feature request at all, I would think. Especially if it can get put into Zorin Appearance.

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So it's not included by default, but if you install gnome-tweaks and change the shell to something dark, it will make your task bar (plus other bars if you have / want) into the dark counterparts.

It seems like that's what you would want? I do think they could still add something to Zorin Appearance to acheive the same thing, but at least there is a way.

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I'd love that, actually. The taskbar is a central piece to most desktop environments across operating systems and should be as flexible as possible.

For the time being, I can offer you a workaround this:

  1. Launch Zorin Appearance and select the dark theme.

  2. Launch "Terminal" from the application list, and run the following commands, one at the time:

    gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-theme ZorinGrey-Light
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface icon-theme ZorinGrey-Light

    Make sure to change that last bit to match the accent color that you want to use. For example i.e: "ZorinPurple-Light", "ZorinGreen-Light", etc.

There are a few caveats to this approach, however:

  1. Do not use the theme controls through Zorin Appearance, otherwise it will apply to the taskbar as well, reverting the changes you just made.

  2. The overall theme won't change automatically between light/dark based on the time of the day. This includes the wallpaper. But we can run yet another command at a given schedule to adjust this accordingly if you want to.

  3. It's possible that certain system updates reset the settings to their defaults. In that case, you'd have to go over these steps again. This is simply due because there's no built-in functionality for this at the moment, so this workaround is basically a patch.

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These all seem like great suggestions. Thank you! Will give them a go.

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