Becoming Less "Red" in Color

[desmonk]

Checklist

• I checked, but didn't find any duplicates (open OR closed) of this issue in the repo.
• I have read the contribution guidelines given at https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/blob/HEAD/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md.
• This issue contains only one feature request. I will open one issue for every feature I want to request.

What feature do you want?

An option to change the UI color including the ICON itself.

Why do you want this feature?

Every app now have some attractive elements buried deep down to capture user attention all the time and one those methods is using bright colors and especially the color red. This has been used so much now that even the apps that actually need to be using them say some emergency services and similar are left behind.

Red is a very aggressive color in real life and have indirect impact on human brain. Color red is assigned for a specific reasons such as a traffic signal to get alerted. Whether medical or day to day simple life scenario, red color is not that in use unless it is a necessity.

What I am humbly trying to request here is an option whereby we don't push the red color like the other apps which exploit human brain in ways we can't even understand yet.

Hope the team sees the request in a manner it's intended.

Thank you!

Added something to read about:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5337749/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-color-red-influences-our-behavior/

[SameenAhnaf]

As a temporary solution, go to Settings>Appearence>Select Dark or Black theme. The red will be slightly dimmer.

Also, have a look at #6699

[desmonk]

The author of the case had dfferent reason than what's described here. Already using Dark or Black theme and yes gets dimmer for sure.

[defini-tiv]

Why do you have such a strng opinion on red?
If it would have a negative impact for the app, youtube wouldnt be red.
If it would have a negative impact on the user, then firefighters would have real problems.

I dont know where you live, but i see much more red things around me than just traffic lights and other things where the color is sepcificly for signalin something.

Anyway, If you watch 7 hours of videos a day on your phone you look 10 miniuts on a 17% red screen. Thats not more than you see in real life.
But if you watch 7hrs a day you would have other problems.

Every possibile colors has something that somebody would complain about.

[flickenschild]

I wholeheartedly sign this feature request, however for different reasons. For users with oled phone screens red consumes more energy than pure black and wears out the screen over time. It may not make a difference on a single video but if you watch long time outside of full screen it drains more. I request a setting that enables black mode on additional UI parts. Especially: The top notification bar above the video (where the phones camera usually is located) and the title bar between the content and the notification bar. Thanks!

[SameenAhnaf]

If it would have a negative impact for the app, youtube wouldnt be red.

YouTube app has very few places which turn red. Only, YouTube logo, Play icon on playlists and Subscribe button are red. Their appearance is also pretty subtle and don't cover a lot of places on any page.

That's not the case with Newpipe app. On small screen devices, almost one third of screen is covered red at the top of main page. Also, notification panel tends to turn red to match app colour of Newpipe which is not the case with YouTube. Buffering icons, seek bar and Subscribe icon are red. Needless to say, all top bars are also red.

Every possibile colors has something that somebody would complain about.

Yeah, Newpipe needs to switch to a neutral colour for default theme as their service is no longer limited to YouTube. The service logo should be kept at the top just like YouTube app. This will possibly add the ability to change themes to other colours too.

[defini-tiv]

Yeah, Newpipe needs to switch to a neutral colour for default theme as their service is no longer limited to YouTube.

It makes sense to indicate the service by the color.
Youtube is the default service. I think that makes sense too and i would be suprised if many people would disagree.

I request a setting that enables black mode on additional UI parts. Especially: The top notification bar above

I think a setting is a bit overkill. I think the red makes sense when the top of the app itself is red, but e.g in the portrait video player, i dont like the colored-bar too. Because it highlights the bar instead of blending it in with the app what the coloring feature is intended for.

I dont know if changing the bar color dependent on the view would be too complex.

[triallax]

@flickenschild you're looking for #4148.

[litetex]

My comment from #4148 (comment) also applies here.

[SameenAhnaf]

It makes sense to indicate the service by the color.

We might add an alternative instead. Something like this is already available on bookmarked playlists and play queue.

Here's why, I think neutral app color should be introduced. Although I am playing a SoundCloud video, player bar colour is blue. Because, I browsed Bandcamp for the last time. But that makes no sense actually.

[tutacat]

Also the subscribe button