Dark Mode Icons

[NaomiX3]

Problem

When on dark mode the icons appear a lil bit too bright, specially at night, that can cause eye fatigue for some people.

Proposal

I think having a different set of icons or just darken the current ones for dark mode would be nicer on the eyes (just like the new IOS 18) :)

Prior Art (Optional)

[danirabbit]

Hey thanks for filing this feature request! I don't think this would be difficult to do for the system icons and we could solve issues like #985, #951, and #853 by providing a dark icon theme that inherits the default icon theme and then switching those in settings-daemon

I'm not sure about how to go about solving this for app icons however. Probably that should be pursued upstream in Freedesktop.org here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-specs/-/issues

[wpkelso]

I'd love to see what I can do with this. I have a couple of questions though:

I'm not sure about how to go about solving this for app icons however.

Could application icons not be solved (at least as a stop-gap) in a similar way with an overlay theme? It wouldn't do the dynamic update across all icons that iOS does, but it would solve the issue for eOS specific apps.

...by providing a dark icon theme that inherits the default icon theme and then switching those in settings-daemon

Would implementing this as an overlay theme break other overlay themes that would be expecting to fallback to the default theme? If that's the case, would it make sense to instead generate a full light theme and a dark theme, then switch between those in settings-daemon?