Windows: Thorium title bar uses fixed brownish orange color instead of the default theme

[PhilippeBruno]

Not a big deal, just a peculiar behaviour, but the application title bar of Thorium (v3.2.2) under Windows is not respecting the selected theme and is always of a brownish orange colour (#C96F00). Is this by design or an oversight?

[PhilippeBruno]

Critical Update:
The title bar correctly follows purple, green, red, etc.
But blue accents → #C96F00, and #C96F00 → previous blue.

This is not a cache issue; it's a hardcoded colour substitution in the title bar CSS/JS when the system accent is detected as "blue".

Repro:

1. Set accent to #0078D7 (Windows default blue) → title bar = #C96F00
2. Set accent to #C96F00 → title bar = #0078D7
3. Set accent to #800080 (purple) → title bar = purple

Likely cause: CSS or JS override for "blue clash" → forces bronwish orange.

Fix: Remove hardcoded #C96F00 fallback; use systemPreferences.getAccentColor() directly.

[danielweck]

@arthur-lemeur does this ring a bell?

[danielweck]

...as far as I know Thorium Desktop Reader does not explicitly set the title bar colours, that's a system-level feature.

[PhilippeBruno]

Thanks for the quick reply, @danielweck! That makes sense, it's definitely system-level, but with quirky mappings:

• Blue accent → #C96F00 (orange)
• Orange accent → blue (previous)
• Automatic (dark wallpaper) → #181708 (near-black)
• Purple/green/red → match perfectly

Electron flags like --force-native-title-bar don't override it (custom frame seems locked). Could this be an Electron 37 + Win11 accent detection race condition? Happy to test any code tweaks!

[panaC]

Fix: Remove hardcoded #C96F00 fallback; use systemPreferences.getAccentColor() directly.

https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/api/system-preferences#systempreferencesgetaccentcolor
According to the Electron docs, this is macOS-specific behavior and you're on MS Windows.

I’m moving this to a discussion since it doesn’t look like a directly actionable issue yet.

It would help to provide more context (screenshots, expected vs actual behavior, and windows platform details) so we can better understand the intended behavior across systems before proposing a fix.