Sidebar active states are too prominent
The blue sidebar active state with inverted text looks disproportionately prominent in our UI, especially since the color is more saturated since the Adwaita refresh.
I believe this is the reason why Nautilus changed it to gray some time ago:
Relevant Art
macOS
Darker gray, without inverting the text.
On dark apps it's a lighter gray, also without inverting the text.
iOS
Darker gray, without inverting the text.
Light accent color background, accent color text.
Windows
Accent color text with a line on the left
Proposed Solutions
Both the Apple and Google approaches could probably work in our case, though the Google one might be harder to implement. Personally I think just not inverting the text and using a darker shade of gray would make the most sense.
Edited by Tobias Bernard