Apps use hardcoded adwaita instead of Orchis

[sheeepdev]

Hey, first I wanna say that I love this theme and use it every day :) Thank you for maintaining it.

I have a few problems, since a lot of gnome apps have recently been switching to GTK4, the themes and icons (the icons that im using are Tela-circle) aren't working, so I have to downgrade to an older version for the apps to be able to work.

Trying to switch the theme with the GTK inspector doesn't work either, it seems they are broken.

The only thing im not sure about is if this was fixed in a recent update. My theme is from november so maybe you did some updates in between? Nope. Reinstalled (updated) theme. Still the same.

Here is a example (app is fragments torrent client):

[GZGavinZhao]

Fragments is intentional: https://stopthemingmy.app/ Felix Häcker signed his name at the bottom.

[sheeepdev]

Fragments is intentional: stopthemingmy.app Felix Häcker signed his name at the bottom.

So there is no way to theme it?

[sheeepdev]

https://github.com/do-not-theme/do-not-theme.github.io/issues/3

https://github.com/do-not-theme/do-not-theme.github.io/issues/8

These issues may solve some stuff...

[GZGavinZhao]

Yes, you cannot theme it, at least not using a theme. I do not think there is anything @vinceliuice can do in this case.

[MolassesLover]

I've written a lot of GTK 4 applications and I can confirm Orchis works. I think you should close this issue

[sheeepdev]

@MolassesLover Then this is probably a issue with hardcoding Adwaita, not GTK4? (mostly people who signed dont theme our apps)

[MolassesLover]

@sheeepdev It's definitely caused by hardcoding Adwaita into the application. GTK 4 vanilla doesn't do that, so the developer went out of their way to force Adwaita. I hope that helps. If you want I can look into the Fragments source code to alter it, but that might take a little while

[sheeepdev]

@sheeepdev It's definitely caused by hardcoding Adwaita into the application. GTK 4 vanilla doesn't do that, so the developer went out of their way to force Adwaita. I hope that helps. If you want I can look into the Fragments source code to alter it, but that might take a little while

That would be amazing if you could do that, because currently I needed to downgrade and miss new features.

[sheeepdev]

Anyways, this isnt a problem with Orchis but rather app developers hardcoding adwaita, so im gonna close this issue

[MolassesLover]

@sheeepdev It's definitely caused by hardcoding Adwaita into the application. GTK 4 vanilla doesn't do that, so the developer went out of their way to force Adwaita. I hope that helps. If you want I can look into the Fragments source code to alter it, but that might take a little while

That would be amazing if you could do that, because currently I needed to downgrade and miss new features.

Yeah, I'll take a look at it later today. Sorry if takes a little while, though, I'm also working on Tela Circle. I love GTK theming and anyone that forces Adwaita onto somebody else is insane lawl

[vinceliuice]

If gtk4 app use libadwaita then it can not use 3rd themes

[Thesola10]

libadwaita apps do appear to listen to $GTK_THEME, and forcing Orchis onto one causes a few graphical issues, mostly with lists being unthemed and ex-libhandy components having incorrect margins.

[MolassesLover]

I'm working on a version of Libadwaita that uses Orchis, rather than Adwaita

[Thesola10]

@MolassesLover is this really the right approach? If I understand correctly, that would imply multiplying versions of libadwaita for every Gtk theme?

[MolassesLover]

It would multiply the versions yeah. I found a better solution, though, which is a lot more streamlined. I'll look into finishing it sometime, but no guarantees, I personally don't use Orchis anymore.

[MolassesLover]

Nevermind, Vince beat me to it!

[Thesola10]

Well, the new Gtk4 theme (at least on my install on Arch) is systematically dark with a grey accent. Is there a gsettings key that needs to be changed? (cf. #199)