Sweet-v40 as default Garuda theme, instead of Sweet?

[IamJurij]

I just adore Garuda, it's Arch-based distro I always wanted. But I have this one small issue.

GNOME is my go-to DE when using Linux, I like how Garuda makes it look, but the default "Sweet" theme is not optimized for GNOME 40, which makes icon stick out from dock, overlap, generally it looks pretty bad and sloppy.

But there's a way. "Sweet" creator made GNOME 40 optimized versions of "Sweet" theme. Is there a possibility, that you, devs, change default theme from Sweet to Sweet-v40? It would make Garuda GNOME 40 as pretty as it was on 3.xx GNOME.

Cheers!

[jonathon]

@IamJurij

Sweet-v40

Link?

[elloquin]

Sweet

[librewish]

We use the package sweet-gtk-theme-dark AUR (en) - sweet-gtk-theme-dark

I guess @jonathon or @dr460nf1r3 needs to update it

[jonathon]

The upstream project hasn't tagged a new release, which is why the AUR package hasn't been updated.

I'll ask for a new release tag. If nothing happens then I'll look at updating to a commit and inventing a release number.

[librewish]

@jonathon

nothing happens then I’ll look at updating to a commit and inventing a release number

Maybe do it first then wait for upstream to release the tag

[jonathon]

PKGBUILD updated.

[librewish]

Does not build

[jonathon]

Yup, it's not correct. It needs building with gulp or something.

[jonathon]

OK, try now?

[dr460nf1r3]

We need to revert this as every existing user will get a not working GTK theme creating a separate package would most likely be the better idea

[librewish]

@dr460nf1r3 do this ship the new theme with old theme name in the settings package for now

and when we release new iso make changes to configs

[broisthisfake]

I said the same thing before as well but sgs closed it

[GNOME] About the today's ISO build

1 more thing. The theme "Sweet" which garuda comes with, is bugged. [SOMETIMES] As RUanauR said as well, maybe this fixes it. [Screenshot from 2021-09-08 09-44-27] If you guys can replace it with "Sweet-Dark-v40" it would be great (if you go in https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1253385/ and check) because it specifically says it is compatible with gnome 40 shell. Also we can see changelogs, they fixed some bugs so might be good. And this theme should be enabled in shell theme for correct look …

[dr460nf1r3]

I had it in the to-do list but wasnt able to to much pc work this week. Its done now. sweet-gtk-theme-dark reverted to previous state and created a different package with -v40 suffix which garuda-gnome-settings depends on.

[jonathon]

@dr460nf1r3

We need to revert this as every existing user will get a not working GTK theme

Why’s that?

@dr460nf1r3

sweet-gtk-theme-dark reverted to previous state and created a different package with -v40 suffix

What’s the difference? Why do we need to retain the 3.38 version if GNOME is now version 40?

Edit:

OK, so it looks like the initial update caused it to switch to the light theme, but that should have been resolved by the second update, which you then reverted.

[dr460nf1r3]

The folder name was different so every existing user would have a not working theme after the update. But I just realized I did the same thing in the -v40 variant which solves the issue
https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/?h=sweet-gtk-theme-dark-v40&id=5481bffacc85f2c463b549bfcd91c0a9098320a0

[jonathon]

This:

  cp -r "${srcdir}/${_pkgname}" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/themes/"
  mv "${pkgdir}/usr/share/themes/Sweet-Dark-v40" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/themes/Sweet-Dark"

could probably be just

  cp -r "${srcdir}/${_pkgname}" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/themes/Sweet-Dark"

So, next question - do we want to make that change in the sweet-theme-* packages?

[dr460nf1r3]

Alright, done now.