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| author | Danilo M. <danix@danix.xyz> | 2026-09-16 09:23:17 +0200 |
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| committer | Danilo M. <danix@danix.xyz> | 2026-09-16 09:23:17 +0200 |
| commit | 82dfcae2225e4313f400e87e97b1e5f42a0e7b3f (patch) | |
| tree | e6b04d7f25390ee861a23c169d91cb99a4916f0e /templates/gtk/README.md | |
| parent | 6bb645eef6078bf8b8cb8f3b807e97e4b227c68c (diff) | |
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docs(gtk): record GTK as a generated consumer
AGENTS.md listed GTK3/GTK4 among the covered consumers, but nothing generated
or installed a theme for it: the claim had been aspirational since the repo
started. It now describes what the code does, and says plainly that the old
state was a gap rather than a drift.
templates/qt-gtk/ documented both Qt and GTK as installed from upstream. Qt
still derives from catppuccin/Kvantum and GTK from catppuccin/gtk, but both
are generated here now, so the table and the gsettings line say 'udt'. Its
tracked gtk3-settings.ini carried the old theme name too, which made the
record disagree with the live config it mirrors.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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diff --git a/templates/gtk/README.md b/templates/gtk/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..adfc092 --- /dev/null +++ b/templates/gtk/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@ +# GTK3 and GTK4 + +Generated from the palette, installed as `~/.themes/udt`. One fixed name for +every scheme, like Kvantum: the name is referenced by gsettings and by the +GTK4 symlink, so a per-scheme name would mean rewriting both on every switch +and leaving stale themes behind. + +Derived from `catppuccin/gtk` v1.0.3, which is **archived upstream**. Forking +it is deliberate: it is the theme this desktop already ran, and it will not +track future GTK4/libadwaita changes. Replacing it means replacing these +templates, not editing a consumer. + +## What is substituted + +Colours appear in two forms and both are replaced: the hex (`#b7bdf8`) and the +bare decimal triple GTK writes inside `rgba()` (`183, 189, 248`). Substitution +is whole-file, not confined to the `@define-color` block at the tail, because +the 8400 lines above it hardcode palette colours too. That was measured, not +assumed: 338 occurrences in GTK3 and 328 in GTK4 sit outside the block. + +`#eff1f5` is upstream's foreground, which is Latte `text`, a near-white it +pairs with a Macchiato background. It maps to the `fg` role so GTK text matches +rofi, kitty and waybar rather than being brighter than all of them. + +The generator replaces `@ROLE_RGB@` before `@ROLE@`, because `@FG@` is a prefix +of `@FG_RGB@` and the other order would eat the start of the triple placeholder +and leave a literal `_RGB@` in the CSS. + +## What is left alone + +Neutral greys and upstream's derived tints: `#3e4152`, `#2e3143`, the +`rgba(0, 0, 0, ...)` shadows, `#ffffff`, and the `*_500`/`*_700`/`*_900` +Material swatch constants, which ship with every build and are not theme +colour. Same rule as the Kvantum SVG: shading is not palette. + +Two derived values are mapped anyway, because they are semantic rather than +shading: `17, 17, 27` (Latte crust, used as text on the accent) becomes +`bg_deep`, and `182, 106, 119` (a darkened red on the close button) becomes +`critical`. + +## Assets + +67 SVGs, carrying only three palette colours: `bg`, `bg_alt` and the accent, +the last in 36 of them. The upstream `gtk-3.0/assets` and `gtk-4.0/assets` +directories are byte-identical, so one templated set is rendered and copied +into both. + +They are discovered from disk by the generator rather than listed, because +they arrive as a set from upstream and a hand-written list would silently miss +one added by a future refresh. + +## Gotchas + +- **GTK3 takes its theme name from gsettings on Wayland**, not `settings.ini`. + The file is written too, but gsettings wins; it was once pinned to `Breeze`, + silently overriding the file for who knows how long. +- **GTK4 ignores `gtk-theme-name` entirely.** Its stylesheet is imported by + `~/.config/gtk-4.0/gtk.css` through the `theme` symlink. +- **`gtk-dark.css` must exist** alongside `gtk.css`. Apps request one or the + other depending on the prefer-dark setting; upstream ships them identical. +- **GTK apps only reread a theme at startup**, like Qt. A running app keeps the + old colours, which is why the accent here is the fixed fallback rather than + the wallpaper-tracking one. +- **A placeholder with no matching role renders literally** and GTK drops the + declaration with no error. `udt-palette --selftest` asserts every placeholder + in these templates maps to a role, because 8500 lines is too much to eyeball. |
