@Zauberin @a_breakin_glass like, their plan to transition from distro-provided CSS themes to APIs is still incredibly rough, and I’m not sure they’re on the right on Jeremy Soller attacking them

but the part where users will still be able to theme as they please? yeah, I just learned that part, I didn’t see it brought up at any point before a Reddit post today, and I finally got to clear up what was going on… which is that the GNOME team treats themes like frameworks with APIs?????? and libadwaita only restricts up to a level called GTK_STYLE_PROVIDER_PRIORITY_SETTINGS which still allows user-level rules????????

@xerz @Zauberin so "it's not technically impossible, but sounds so heavyweight it may as well be"

@a_breakin_glass @Zauberin no, all you have to do is

like

put your rules on ~/.config/gtk-4.0/gtk.css

maybe tell it to load rules from a different path (so you can have multiple themes)

and that’s it

@xerz @Zauberin huh. the way you described it made me think there needed to be some chunky C/that-gnome-language library per theme

@a_breakin_glass @Zauberin that’s what they’re expecting distros to do: to make their own theme libraries and apps

but users? nope, just a slight change in how it works

and I haven’t found this explained at any point

@a_breakin_glass @Zauberin (well, that and the new APIs should give some margin of customization within libadwaita, no hardcoding required)

@xerz @Zauberin but probably not much

@a_breakin_glass @Zauberin yeah, for now the only customization in sight is color accents