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[!IMPORTANT] This software is currently in a beta state. It can break things, and it doesn't yet have a polished, foolproof UX.
Contributions are welcome!
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Gradience
Change the look of Adwaita, with ease
Gradience is a tool for customizing Libadwaita applications and the adw-gtk3 theme.
[!IMPORTANT] Gradience, stopthemingmy.app and Adwaita Developers
The main features of Gradience include the following:
- 🎨️ Changing any color of Adwaita theme
- 🖼️ Applying Material 3 color scheme from wallpaper
- 🎁️ Usage of other users presets
- ⚙️ Changing advanced options with CSS
- 🧩️ Extending functionality using plugins
🎨️ Theming setup
[!NOTE] You can go to
Preferences
and apply overrides for Flatpak
🪛️ Manual setup
Libadwaita applications
No additional setup is required for native Libadwaita applications.
For Flatpak Libadwaita applications, you need to override their permissions:
- Run
sudo flatpak override --filesystem=xdg-config/gtk-4.0
or - Use Flatseal and adding
xdg-config/gtk-4.0
to Other files in the Filesystem section of All Applications
Vanilla GTK 4 applications
Use this guide to theme vanilla GTK 4 applications.
GTK 3 applications
- Install and apply the adw-gtk3 theme (don't forget to install the Flatpak package!)
- For Flatpak applications, you need to override their permissions:
- Run
sudo flatpak override --filesystem=xdg-config/gtk-3.0
or - Use Flatseal and adding
xdg-config/gtk-3.0
to Other files in the Filesystem section of All Applications
- Run
🔄 Revert Theming
- Open Preferences window
-
Go to Theming tab
-
In Reset & Restore Presets group, click Reset button for either GTK 3 or Libadwaita applications
🪛️ Manual revert
Remove GTK 3 and GTK 4 configs
- Run
rm -rf .config/gtk-4.0 .config/gtk-3.0
Remove adw-gtk3 theme
- Run
flatpak uninstall adw-gtk3
to remove Flatpak adw-gtk3 theme - Run
rm -rf .themes/adw-gtk3 .themes/adw-gtk3-dark .local/share/themes/adw-gtk3 .local/share/themes/adw-gtk3-dark
to remove local adw-gtk3 theme
Reset Flatpak overrides
- Run
sudo flatpak override --reset
[!WARNING] This will reset all Flatpak overrides, such as Firefox Wayland override
📦️ Alternative installation methods
[!IMPORTANT] The main installation method is Flatpak from Flathub
[!NOTE] There are number of Gradience packages that are not tested by Gradience Team and not listed here, available at Repology
Fedora (COPR)
Gradience is available for Fedora via COPR:
dnf copr enable lyessaadi/gradience
dnf install gradience
Debian (And derivatives)
[!WARNING] Not available yet.
Arch Linux (AUR)
Gradience is available for Arch Linux via AUR:
Using Paru:
paru -S gradience
For latest changes:
paru -S gradience-git
🪛️ Without AUR helpers
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/gradience.git
cd gradience
makepkg -sic
For latest changes:
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/gradience-git.git
cd gradience-git
makepkg -sic
NixOS
Gradience is available for NixOS 23.05 (Stoat) and later:
To run in a temporary shell:
nix-shell -p gradience
To install:
nix-env -iA nixos.gradience
🏗️ Building from source
Nightly Build
First of all, you need to have GNOME Nightly Flatpak remote added if it's not already:
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists gnome-nightly https://nightly.gnome.org/gnome-nightly.flatpakrepo
Then, download the Gradience nightly from here
Finally, extract the ZIP and install Gradience by running:
flatpak install gradience-devel.flatpak
GNOME Builder
GNOME Builder is the environment used for developing this application. It can use Flatpak manifests to create a consistent building and running environment cross-distro. Thus, it is highly recommended you use it.
- Download GNOME Builder.
- In Builder, click the "Clone Repository" button at the bottom, using
https://github.com/GradienceTeam/Gradience.git
as the URL. - Click the build button at the top once the project is loaded.
For more building and installation methods, see HACKING.md
🎛️ Miscellaneous
Show welcome window again
The following command will make Gradience show welcome screen on next launch, like you just installed it
Flatpak
flatpak run --command=gsettings com.github.GradienceTeam.Gradience reset com.github.GradienceTeam.Gradience first-run
Alternative installation methods
gsettings reset com.github.GradienceTeam.Gradience first-run
ℹ️ FAQ
How can I launch a CLI?
Refer to temporary CLI documentation in repo's wiki for instructions on how to launch a CLI.
🙌 Contribute to Gradience
See HACKING.md
✨️ Contributors
🏷️ About the Name
Gradience was originally named Adwaita Manager.
You can see the meaning of Gradience on Wiktionary.
The icon represents: A Paint Roller repainting an Adwaita window, keeping its functionality.
🖌️ About the "Pretty Purple"
The Pretty Purple theme comes from the very beginning, directly from the original author of Gradience, Artyom Fomin.
It was called "Purple Guy", presumably as a reference to the FNaF, later it was renamed to Pretty Purple.
Pretty Purple preset was originally shared in the https://github.com/GradienceTeam/Gradience/discussions/23.
Pretty Purple is built-in in the Gradience and used in all Gradience artworks.
🌱️ Gradience, stopthemingmy.app and Adwaita Developers
Gradience Team is not against the ideas of stopthemingmy.app and the developers of Adwaita. Gradience is a tool for tinkerers who want to theme their desktop to their liking, and not a tool for distributions to ship in their releases. Gradience Team agrees with importance of unified look of Adwaita to make sure that all apps function correctly and that developers have a unified and stable tool for creating their apps.
💝 Acknowledgment
Special thanks to:
- Original author of Gradience, Artyom Fomin for creating this project
- Weblate for providing translation platform
This README is based on README from Kooha by Dave Patrick Caberto