Gradience/README.md

Gradience

Change the look of Adwaita, with ease

Gradience is a tool for customizing Libadwaita applications and the adw-gtk3 theme.

Warning

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

📷️ More screenshots

🏗️ Building from source

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.

1. Download GNOME Builder.
2. In Builder, click the "Clone Repository" button at the bottom, using https://github.com/GradienceTeam/Gradience.git as the URL.
3. Click the build button at the top once the project is loaded.

Meson

Prerequisites

The following packages are required to build Gradience:

• python3
• python-gobject
• blueprint-compiler
• gtk4
• libadwaita (>= 1.2)
• meson
• ninja-build

Required Python libraries:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Build Instruction

Global installation

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)

git clone https://github.com/GradienceTeam/Gradience.git
cd Gradience
meson builddir
meson configure builddir -Dprefix="$(pwd)/builddir"
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.

🙌 Help translate Gradience

You can help Gradience translate into your native language. If you found any typos or think you can improve a translation, you can use the Weblate platform.

🏷️ 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 it's functionality.

🌱️ Gradience, stopthemingmy.app and Adwaita Developers

Gradience Team is not against stopthemingmy.app and Adwaita Developers idea, Gradience is a tool for tinkers that want to theme their desktops at their liking, and not a tool for distributions to change theme in them by default, Gradience Team agrees with importance of unified look of Adwaita to make sure that all apps work right and Developers have unified and stable tool for creating their apps.

💝 Acknowledgment

Original author of Gradience is Artyom Fomin, now it developed by Gradience Team

This README is based on README from Kooha by Dave Patrick Caberto