Tiny feature request about light and dark mode

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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.