https://github.com/xi/gtk-theme-clearcodes

gtk3 theme with a focus on code simplicity
https://github.com/xi/gtk-theme-clearcodes

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gtk3 theme with a focus on code simplicity

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/xi/gtk-theme-clearcodes
• Owner: xi
• Created: 2016-02-26T13:45:11.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-06-03T14:13:39.000Z (7 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-06-04T01:54:10.388Z (7 months ago)
• Topics: gtk3-theme
• Language: CSS
• Homepage:
• Size: 444 KB
• Stars: 13
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
This is a theme for gtk3 with a focus on code simplicty.

Did you ever want to fix one little issue in a gtk3 theme and instantly gave up

once you saw the code? That is at least my experience. So instead of tweaking

an existing theme to my liking I decided to write one from scratch.

There is not a lot of documentation on writing gtk3 themes. It is especially

hard to know which selectors can be used to style an element. So there may well

be some selectors I missed.

I tried to make the code as clear as possible. So maybe it can serve as a

reference for people who want to build their own themes.

And IMHO it also looks ok, btw.

![screenshot of gtk3-widget-factory](screenshots/gtk3-widget-factory.png)

## Update

In the meantime, the situation has improved a lot. [The documentation][1] is

much better, the [reference implementation][2] is much cleaner, and there even

is an interactive inspector (`$ GTK_DEBUG=interactive {your-app}`).

On the other hand, the concept of GTK themes itself is [highly contested][3].

Anyway, I think there is still value in a minimal theme that is easy to modify.

So I will keep using this.

[1]: https://docs.gtk.org/gtk3/

[2]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libadwaita/-/tree/main/src/stylesheet

[3]: https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2018/10/15/restyling-apps-at-scale/