[!IMPORTANT] Gradience has been archived as of June 29, 2024. See the blog post for some information on the rationale behind this decision.

[!NOTE] Gradience is looking for a maintainer(s)! if you know Python and GTK4/Libadwaita and willing to work on it, chip in on Matrix and Discord.

Gradience

Change the look of Adwaita, with ease

Preview

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

📷️ More screenshots

![Monet Tab](https://github.com/GradienceTeam/Design/raw/main/Screenshots/monet_purple.png) ![Proof of Work](https://github.com/GradienceTeam/Design/raw/main/Screenshots/proof_purple.png)

🎨️ 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](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 Use [this guide](https://github.com/lassekongo83/adw-gtk3/blob/main/gtk4.md) to theme vanilla GTK 4 applications. ### GTK 3 applications - Install and apply the [adw-gtk3](https://github.com/lassekongo83/adw-gtk3#readme) 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](https://github.com/tchx84/Flatseal) and adding `xdg-config/gtk-3.0` to **Other files** in the **Filesystem** section of **All Applications**

🔄 Revert Theming

Open Preferences window

Main Gradience Menu

Go to Theming tab
In Reset & Restore Presets group, click Reset button for either GTK 3 or Libadwaita applications

Reset & Restore Presets Group

🪛️ 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

```shell git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/gradience.git cd gradience makepkg -sic ``` For latest changes: ```shell 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

See gradienceteam.github.io/hack

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

GradienceTeam / Gradience

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