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# Gradience
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Change the look of Adwaita, with ease
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![Screenshot of interface with Adwaita light theme](https://github.com/GradienceTeam/Design/blob/main/Screenshots/main_screenshot.png)
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Gradience is a tool for customizing Libadwaita applications and the adw-gtk3 theme.
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<details>
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<summary>More screenshots</summary>
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![Screenshot of interface of Monet Tab](https://github.com/GradienceTeam/Design/blob/main/Screenshots/monet_purple.png)
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![Screenshot of proof that this actually works](https://github.com/GradienceTeam/Design/blob/main/Screenshots/proof_of_work_screenshot.png)
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</details>
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[![Build flatpak](https://github.com/GradienceTeam/Gradience/actions/workflows/flatpak.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/GradienceTeam/Gradience/actions/workflows/flatpak.yml)
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## Download
Gradience is available on Flathub.
<a href="https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.github.GradienceTeam.Gradience">
<img width="200" alt="Download on Flathub" src="https://flathub.org/assets/badges/flathub-badge-i-en.svg"/>
</a>
## Building and Installing
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Gradience can be installed using multiple methods.
- Flathub (Recommended)
- As RPM package
- As DEB package (not available yet)
- From AUR
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### Flatpak
Gradience is available on Flathub. You can install it using the following command:
```bash
flatpak install flathub com.github.GradienceTeam.Gradience
```
### COPR
Gradience is available on COPR. You can install it using the following command:
```bash
dnf copr enable lyessaadi/gradience
dnf install gradience
```
### Debian (And derivates)
Not available yet
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### AUR
Gradience is available on AUR. You can install it using the following command:
```bash
yay -S gradience # or gradience-git
```
### Building from source
#### Requirements
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- Python 3 `python`
- PyGObject `python-gobject`
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- Blueprint [`blueprint-compiler`](https://jwestman.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/blueprint-compiler/setup.html)
- GTK4 `gtk4`
- libadwaita (>= 1.2.alpha) `libadwaita`
- Meson `meson`
- Ninja `ninja`
Install required Python libraries:
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```sh
pip install -r requirements.txt
```
### Global installation
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```sh
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git clone https://github.com/GradienceTeam/Gradience.git
cd Gradience
meson builddir --prefix=/usr/local
sudo ninja -C builddir install
```
### Local build (for testing and development purposes)
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```sh
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git clone https://github.com/GradienceTeam/Gradience.git
cd Gradience
meson builddir
meson configure builddir -Dprefix="$(pwd)/builddir/testdir"
ninja -C builddir install
ninja -C builddir run
```
**[NOTE]** During testing and developement, as a convenience, you can use the `local.sh` script to quickly rebuild local builds.
### Building using flatpak-builder
1. Open Terminal
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2. Run `git clone https://github.com/GradienceTeam/Gradience.git && cd Gradience`
3. Install the `42` version of GNOME SDK: `flatpak install org.gnome.Sdk/x86_64/42 org.gnome.Platform/x86_64/42`
4. Run: `flatpak-builder --install --user --force-clean repo/ build-aux/flatpak/com.github.GradienceTeam.Gradience.Devel.json`
Alternatively, open the project with GNOME Builder, then build and run it.
## Setup Tutorial
You can also go in `Preferences` and apply overwrite for Flatpak
### Libadwaita applications
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No additional setup is required for native Libadwaita applications.
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For Flatpak Libadwaita applications, you need to override their permissions:
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- Run `sudo flatpak override --filesystem=xdg-config/gtk-4.0` or
- Use [Flatseal](https://github.com/tchx84/Flatseal) and adding `xdg-config/gtk-4.0` to **Other files** in the **Filesystem** section of **All Applications**
### Vanilla GTK 4 applications
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Use [this guide](https://github.com/lassekongo83/adw-gtk3/blob/main/gtk4.md) to theme vanilla GTK 4 applications.
### GTK 3 applications
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- Install and apply the [adw-gtk3](https://github.com/lassekongo83/adw-gtk3#readme) theme (don't forget to install the Flatpak package!)
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- For Flatpak applications, you need to override their permissions:
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- Run `sudo flatpak override --filesystem=xdg-config/gtk-3.0` or
- Use [Flatseal](https://github.com/tchx84/Flatseal) and adding `xdg-config/gtk-3.0` to **Other files** in the **Filesystem** section of **All Applications**
## Roadmap
This tool is currently WIP, but it already has a plenty of features and is very usable. Below is the roadmap, where all the checked features are already implemented:
<details><summary>Show roadmap</summary>
### <!-- GapTool Turbo 3000 -->
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- [x] Customize named colors, either with a color picker or with text
- [x] Explanations for some named colors
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- [x] Partial theme preview
- [x] Built-in presets for Adwaita and Adwaita Dark (based on default libadwaita colors)
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- [x] Apply changes to libadwaita, GTK4 (with extracted libadwaita theme) and GTK3 (with the adw-gtk3 theme) applications
- [x] Load and create custom presets
- [x] View adw-gtk3's support of variables
- [x] View parsing errors
- [x] Customize palette colors
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- [x] Add custom CSS code
- [x] Localization support
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- [x] Normalize color variables
- [x] Make the code more secure
- [x] Add preset manager with option to download other users presets
- [x] Release on Flathub
- [ ] Add plugin support. Will help integration with others tools. (WIP)
- [ ] Full theme preview
- [ ] Customize GNOME Shell
- [ ] Customize GDM
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- [ ] Customize KvLibadwaita
- [ ] Customize Firefox GNOME theme
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</details>
## Contribute
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See [`CONTRIBUTING.md`](CONTRIBUTING.md) for more informations and a list of contributors
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## About Name
Gradience was originally named Adwaita Manager.
You can see the meaning of Gradience on [Wiktionary](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gradience).
The icon represents: _A Paint Roller repainting an Adwaita window, keeping it's functionality and improving it's looks_