Please don’t theme our apps
&gt; GTK Stylesheets can make applications look broken, and even unusable.<p>Bugs are bad, yes.<p>&gt; Icon Themes can change icon metaphors, leading to interfaces with icons that don’t express what the developer intended.<p>That is not a problem if you use icons for the purpose they are intended for.<p>&gt; Changing an app’s icon denies the developer the possibility to control their brand.<p>Good. My computer is not your billboard. Consistency is more important than your &quot;brand&quot;.<p>&gt; Appstream Screenshots (the screenshots used in GNOME Software or Flathub) are not very useful if they look nothing like the real app does once you install it.<p>&gt; User Help and Documentation are similarly useless if UI elements on your system are different from the ones described in the documentation.<p>Nonsense. Theming doesn&#x27;t affect the layout of a program. If people were that bad at abstraction, then how do they recognize they can sit on a metal chair if they are familiar with wooden ones?<p>&gt; They are built and tested for the upstream GNOME stylesheet, icons, and fonts, so that’s what they should look like on peoples’ systems.<p>No. They should look like the user chooses them to look. One way for the user to express their choice is to choose a distribution whose theme they like.<p>&gt; Changing third-party apps without any QA is reckless, and would be unacceptable on any other platform.<p>∀x. x without any QA is reckless.