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Add custom SCSS file with existing overrides and rebuild gtk.css
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1 Summary
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4 * Do not edit the CSS directly, edit the source SCSS files and process them with SASS (run
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5 `/.parse-sass.sh` when you have the required sofwtare installed, as described below)
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6 * To be able to use the lates/adequate version of sass, install ruby, gem, sass & bundle.
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7 On Fedora F20, this is done with `sudo dnf install rubygems && gem install bundle && bundle install`
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8 from the same directory this README resides in.
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10 How to tweak the theme
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13 Adwaita is a complex themes, so to keep it maintainable it's written and processed in SASS, the
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14 generated CSS is then transformed into a gresource file during gtk build and used at runtime in a
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15 non-legible or editable form.
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17 It is very likely your change will happen in the _common.scss file. That's where all the widget
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18 selectors are defined. Here's a rundown of the "supporting" stylesheets, that are unlikely to be the
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19 right place for a drive by stylesheet fix:
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21 _colors.scss - global color definitions. We keep the number of defined colors to a necessary minimum,
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22 most colors are derived form a handful of basics. It covers both the light variant and
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23 the dark variant.
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25 _colors-public.scss - SCSS colors exported through gtk to allow for 3rd party apps color mixing.
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27 _drawing.scss - drawing helper mixings/functions to allow easier definition of widget drawing under
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28 specific context. This is why Adwaita isn't 15000 LOC.
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30 _common.scss - actual definitions of style for each widget. This is where you are likely to add/remove
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31 your changes.
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33 You can read about SASS at http://sass-lang.com/documentation/. Once you make your changes to the
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34 _common.scss file, you can either run the ./parse-sass.sh script or keep SASS watching for changes as you
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35 edit. This is done by running `bundle exec sass --watch --sourcemap=none .` If sass is out of date, or is
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36 missing, you can install it with `bundle install`.