It’s not too bad once you get used to it. It’s still a lot of “throw this color here, check results, looks shit, change color, rinse and repeat.” QT theming is pretty similar.
I had just taken days to perfectly set up my homemade theme last distro, matching QT and GTK, only to find out I didn’t like the distro. I gave up after that and just slapped Gruvbox Dark on everything.
When in doubt and the work to theme gets too much: Gruvbox, Dracula, Tomorrow/Tomorrow Night, or Solarized will cover just about everything.
thingsiplay@beehaw.org
on 24 Apr 04:42
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Is this GTKs fault, or the app developers, or your distribution? Or maybe you misconfigured something.
Villainess@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 24 Apr 04:55
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probably both, GTK and Me problem, GTK because it use inconsistent CSS property tag, Me because I don’t know what that tag is
Do you know which GTK version you had installed before updating?
data1701d@startrek.website
on 24 Apr 06:36
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I mean, this might be a bit more your fault in this case, but I agree with the sentiment.
They’re always changing something about the CSS sheets, and I find it a pain to develop for, granted it’s been a few years since I last touched it, and on a very hobbyist level at that. I quickly switched to Qt for that project. Now I use wxWidgets, which I guess just uses GTK, but I like that I don’t have to directly deal with GTK.
drwankingstein@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 24 Apr 10:06
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GTK itself is a massive pain to get theming working stably. I recently did an update and no I am missing minimize and maximize on all my GTK apps, Im sure the issue is with some config I made at some point, but the fact that this can be an issue at all and be so hard to diagnose is really, really dumb
I don’t think that’s the case here. This is Lutris, a GTK3 app. There shouldn’t be any GTK changes breaking themes here. It seems like OP’s theme is just broken.
data1701d@startrek.website
on 25 Apr 01:10
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Oh certainly. OP is probably doing something wrong. This was just a good excuse to vent about real problems with GTK.
daggermoon@lemmy.world
on 24 Apr 08:00
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Same.
JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
on 24 Apr 09:53
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Looks like a theming problem, not a GTK problem
Correct.
Looks like a theming problem with GTK to me.
GTK does theming stupid.
It’s not too bad once you get used to it. It’s still a lot of “throw this color here, check results, looks shit, change color, rinse and repeat.” QT theming is pretty similar.
I had just taken days to perfectly set up my homemade theme last distro, matching QT and GTK, only to find out I didn’t like the distro. I gave up after that and just slapped Gruvbox Dark on everything.
When in doubt and the work to theme gets too much: Gruvbox, Dracula, Tomorrow/Tomorrow Night, or Solarized will cover just about everything.
Is this GTKs fault, or the app developers, or your distribution? Or maybe you misconfigured something.
probably both, GTK and Me problem, GTK because it use inconsistent CSS property tag, Me because I don’t know what that tag is
Do you know which GTK version you had installed before updating?
I mean, this might be a bit more your fault in this case, but I agree with the sentiment.
They’re always changing something about the CSS sheets, and I find it a pain to develop for, granted it’s been a few years since I last touched it, and on a very hobbyist level at that. I quickly switched to Qt for that project. Now I use wxWidgets, which I guess just uses GTK, but I like that I don’t have to directly deal with GTK.
GTK itself is a massive pain to get theming working stably. I recently did an update and no I am missing minimize and maximize on all my GTK apps, Im sure the issue is with some config I made at some point, but the fact that this can be an issue at all and be so hard to diagnose is really, really dumb
I don’t think that’s the case here. This is Lutris, a GTK3 app. There shouldn’t be any GTK changes breaking themes here. It seems like OP’s theme is just broken.
Oh certainly. OP is probably doing something wrong. This was just a good excuse to vent about real problems with GTK.
Same.
What’s GTK?
Black terminal FTW.