Interesting. That aligns somewhat with another comment I heard recently about buttons.

I’m not currently able to change the actual icons in my themes, but their ‘brightness’ is easy to adjust. If you want to do it yourself you can edit the rgb values on line 180 in the gimp.css file starting ‘@define-color fg-color’. They’re currently set at 245 but you could change them to 230 for example.

Do you find them too bright in the dark theme?

Yes, you’ve got it 👍

You can basically just treat everything available in Discover as good, because everything there will either be from Debian or from Flathub.

I’m on Debian 13 too but have the GNOME desktop environmet.

Just to clarify what others are saying: the ‘software store’ (Discover in your case) is just the graphical application that you use to manage the software installed on your computer. The repositories, aka ‘repos’ are the sources of that software. There are people whose job it is to vet the software in those repositories and make sure that it’s safe. Flatpak is a packaging format. The biggest repository (and what you likely have enabled) for flatpaks is Flathub. If you’re installing software from the Debian repo and Flathub you should be fine. You should be able to verify which repositories are enabled via the Discover app. You have the freedom to add other repositories too, but it will be your own responsibility to evaluate whether those sources are trustworthy if you do.

Long story short, if you just use Debian as it is, you are fine.

Don’t worry, I get KDE updates in GNOME.

I made a theme which is more professional-looking and less busy/cramped if you’re interested:

https://jpicture.net/printroomexpertsuperflat/

I’m about to release a dark version of it too.