gtk2/gtk/theme/Default
Christian Hergert e38e8ed73e css: reduce overdraws from "textview > text"
This was causing us to draw the same background content twice which is a
significant amount of bits to flip in the GPU for maximized windows,
especially twice.
2022-02-11 23:06:16 -08:00
..
assets
assets-hc
_colors-public.scss
_colors.scss style: legible text selections 2022-02-01 17:12:52 +01:00
_common.scss css: reduce overdraws from "textview > text" 2022-02-11 23:06:16 -08:00
_drawing.scss
assets-hc.svg
assets.svg
assets.txt
Default-dark.scss
Default-hc-dark.scss
Default-hc.scss
Default-light.scss
gtk-dark.css
gtk-hc-dark.css
gtk-hc.css
gtk-light.css
gtk.css
meson.build
README
render-assets.sh

Summary
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* To be able to use the latest/adequate version of sass, install sassc
* meson 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.

Theme variants
--------------

The Default theme comes in 4 variants: light, dark, hc (highcontrast) and
hc-dark (highcontrast inverse). The generated CSS files for the variants
are called Default-$variant.css. For technical reasons, GTK adds one level
of include wrappers around these, which are called gtk-$variant.css.

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

Default 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 Default 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.