Re:Gaming on Wayland
by noahtallen on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @04:23AM
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No, according to the post I shared, you can do more than that:
> You can also recolor any part of a widget however you like
And they show an example of a gradient background and stuff like that.
And I mean, for most people, a theme is just coloring things how they like and setting the font and visual things. While full-blown stylesheets are very cool, and I think still “allowed,” you can’t really officially support that in a compatible way. You have to set an API so that everything can be consistent.
For example, it can currently be a huge pain to change the accent color on PopOS away from orange because you can’t just set a variable somewhere. It seems like the new system will improve that.
> You can also recolor any part of a widget however you like
And they show an example of a gradient background and stuff like that.
And I mean, for most people, a theme is just coloring things how they like and setting the font and visual things. While full-blown stylesheets are very cool, and I think still “allowed,” you can’t really officially support that in a compatible way. You have to set an API so that everything can be consistent.
For example, it can currently be a huge pain to change the accent color on PopOS away from orange because you can’t just set a variable somewhere. It seems like the new system will improve that.
Either way, leaps and bounds ahead of macOS