gtk2/gtk/theme/Adwaita
Matthias Clasen 0d9a7fe089 Adwaita: Remove wildcards
Selectors like *:disabled or *:link have bad performance
implications, since they cause all styles to be recomputed
when the state of the window changes. Replace these by a
list of the elements that are actually affected.

Fixes: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/issues/2380
2020-01-18 01:30:02 -05:00
..
assets Adwaita: update checkbox & radio 2020-01-13 13:45:34 +01:00
_colors-public.scss
_colors.scss Adwaita: Add color defines from 3.24 2019-10-09 16:57:21 +02:00
_common.scss Adwaita: Remove wildcards 2020-01-18 01:30:02 -05:00
_drawing.scss Adwaita: Avoid directly coloring labels wherever possible 2019-11-26 00:39:33 +09:00
assets.svg
assets.txt
gtk-contained-dark.css Adwaita: Remove wildcards 2020-01-18 01:30:02 -05:00
gtk-contained-dark.scss
gtk-contained.css Adwaita: Remove wildcards 2020-01-18 01:30:02 -05:00
gtk-contained.scss
gtk-dark.css
gtk.css
meson.build
parse-sass.sh
README Adwaita: update the README 2019-12-24 12:30:54 -05:00
render-assets.sh

Summary
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* Do not edit the CSS directly, edit the source SCSS files
* To be able to use the latest/adequate version of sass, install sassc
* The configure script will detect whether or not you have sassc installed;
  if you do, it will regenerate the CSS every time you modify the SCSS files.
* Note that meson always builds out-of-tree, so the modified css files will
  appear in your builddir, and you need to copy them back to the srcdir
  to commit them.

How to tweak the theme
----------------------

Adwaita is a complex theme, so to keep it maintainable it's written and
processed in SASS. The generated CSS is then transformed into a gresource file
during gtk build and used at runtime in a non-legible or editable form.

It is very likely your change will happen in the _common.scss file. That's where
all the widget selectors are defined. Here's a rundown of the "supporting"
stylesheets, that are unlikely to be the right place for a drive by stylesheet
fix:

_colors.scss        - global color definitions. We keep the number of defined
                      colors to a necessary minimum, most colors are derived
                      from a handful of basics. It covers both the light variant
                      and the dark variant.

_colors-public.scss - SCSS colors exported through gtk to allow for 3rd party
                      apps color mixing.

_drawing.scss       - drawing helper mixings/functions to allow easier
                      definition of widget drawing under specific context. This
                      is why Adwaita isn't 15000 LOC.

_common.scss        - actual definitions of style for each widget. This is
                      where you are likely to add/remove your changes.
                      
You can read about SASS at http://sass-lang.com/documentation/. Once you make
your changes to the _common.scss file, GTK will rebuild the CSS files.