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I think you are misusing the word "doublespeak", I would suggest against using that word. There are some technical reasons why tweak tool will not work anymore

I think you are misusing the word "doublespeak", I would suggest against using that word. There are some technical reasons why tweak tool will not work anymore but you can still use gtk.css and GTK_THEME, see here: https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2021/09/18/the-truth-they-are-not-telling-you-about-themes/ https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2021/09/18/the-truth-they-a... Worst case it is the same as KDE, you have to set some environment variables and it still may not work correctly with some apps because third-party theming is inherently unreliable. The tweak tool method was also an unsupported third-party thing with most of the same limitations. It has been in a broken state for a while but you probably just didn't notice it because you weren't unlucky enough to end up in a situation where it affected you. I'd still like to emphasize my other comments though, third-party theming is quite broken on every single platform I've ever used and I suggest against using it if you want to avoid apps randomly breaking. If you plan to continue that route then you may have to get more involved in development to the point where you can fix theme bugs and patch the apps without asking other people for help. That's been my experience with third-party themes anyway, they are essentially hacking the apps and so are not really for average users to mess with.

_2paq 5y ago
> The tweak tool method was also an unsupported third-party thing with most of the same limitations. Interesting, so what was and is the supported first party method to change themes and set keyboard shortcuts and use Emacs keybindings and make the Caps Lock key behave as Esc on GNOME?
- shatteredgate 5y ago
  AFAIK there has never been an officially supported way to set those in the GNOME GUI and that's true of everything else in the tweak tool including the themes, that's why they're technically in "use at your own risk because this can break everything and mess up your apps" territory. Those are only implemented as hidden settings that the tweak tool modifies. Not sure about other desktops, XFCE might have a GUI to set them.
  - _2paq 5y ago
    Interesting, I'll remember this the next time someone tells me to just use GNOME Tweak Tool to use Emacs keybindings or change the theme or keyboard shortcuts because they're unsupported features and maybe disabled anytime without notice, despite the apparent impression most people seem to be under when they use GNOME Tweak Tool.
    - shatteredgate 5y ago
      Yes, you should also remember that when using third-party KDE themes like qt5ct, or hidden KDE settings, or anything else really that wasn't intended by the developer. In my experience with all of those settings, they do work sometimes but with certain apps they can break. That's mostly what unsupported means. I've already said my piece on themes but with keyboard shortcuts, the app can set key bindings that conflict with those and then you'll end up with a broken app again. It's a bad idea to use those settings unless you're willing to revert them at a moment's notice when they break some apps, or unless you're ready to become a developer and fix some of the underlying issues that are causing the breakage. >despite the apparent impression most people seem to be under when they use GNOME Tweak Tool I'm not sure what that impression is, GNOME Tweak Tool has always been this way. Other desktops like XFCE can of course expose the setting and make it supported but that's only guaranteed to work with XFCE apps that they've designed to work with that setting.
      - _2paq 5y ago
        > Yes, you should also remember that when using third-party KDE themes like qt5ct, or hidden KDE settings I don't have much skin in the game to be honest because I've given up on using any GUI apps on Linux wherever possible. If I do use GUI apps, I keep looking for ways to quit using them too. The attitude exhibited by GTK and GNOME developers on their issue trackers and the unstable nature of KDE apps on Wayland has made me cynical about GUI on Linux. I wouldn't know how to differentiate between "supported" and "unsupported" features on GNOME. If basic features like changing keyboard shortcuts are "unsupported" on GNOME, I'm not sure who the target audience of such a DE is, except maybe grandmas, managers, and people with attention deficit issues. Then again, I fail to see why such people would bother with using Linux in the first place. And yeah, I would use KDE apps but they're almost unusable on swaywm on Wayland so I've stopped using them as well. I'll focus on creating and using only command line tools and TUIs. Unlike the GUI mess that we have, they are mostly platform independent and can be used almost anywhere. It was nice talking to you. Thanks for your time.

_2paq 5y ago

> The tweak tool method was also an unsupported third-party thing with most of the same limitations. Interesting, so what was and is the supported first party method to change themes and set keyboard shortcuts and use Emacs keybindings and make the Caps Lock key behave as Esc on GNOME?

shatteredgate 5y ago
AFAIK there has never been an officially supported way to set those in the GNOME GUI and that's true of everything else in the tweak tool including the themes, that's why they're technically in "use at your own risk because this can break everything and mess up your apps" territory. Those are only implemented as hidden settings that the tweak tool modifies. Not sure about other desktops, XFCE might have a GUI to set them.
- _2paq 5y ago
  Interesting, I'll remember this the next time someone tells me to just use GNOME Tweak Tool to use Emacs keybindings or change the theme or keyboard shortcuts because they're unsupported features and maybe disabled anytime without notice, despite the apparent impression most people seem to be under when they use GNOME Tweak Tool.
  - shatteredgate 5y ago
    Yes, you should also remember that when using third-party KDE themes like qt5ct, or hidden KDE settings, or anything else really that wasn't intended by the developer. In my experience with all of those settings, they do work sometimes but with certain apps they can break. That's mostly what unsupported means. I've already said my piece on themes but with keyboard shortcuts, the app can set key bindings that conflict with those and then you'll end up with a broken app again. It's a bad idea to use those settings unless you're willing to revert them at a moment's notice when they break some apps, or unless you're ready to become a developer and fix some of the underlying issues that are causing the breakage. >despite the apparent impression most people seem to be under when they use GNOME Tweak Tool I'm not sure what that impression is, GNOME Tweak Tool has always been this way. Other desktops like XFCE can of course expose the setting and make it supported but that's only guaranteed to work with XFCE apps that they've designed to work with that setting.
    - _2paq 5y ago
      > Yes, you should also remember that when using third-party KDE themes like qt5ct, or hidden KDE settings I don't have much skin in the game to be honest because I've given up on using any GUI apps on Linux wherever possible. If I do use GUI apps, I keep looking for ways to quit using them too. The attitude exhibited by GTK and GNOME developers on their issue trackers and the unstable nature of KDE apps on Wayland has made me cynical about GUI on Linux. I wouldn't know how to differentiate between "supported" and "unsupported" features on GNOME. If basic features like changing keyboard shortcuts are "unsupported" on GNOME, I'm not sure who the target audience of such a DE is, except maybe grandmas, managers, and people with attention deficit issues. Then again, I fail to see why such people would bother with using Linux in the first place. And yeah, I would use KDE apps but they're almost unusable on swaywm on Wayland so I've stopped using them as well. I'll focus on creating and using only command line tools and TUIs. Unlike the GUI mess that we have, they are mostly platform independent and can be used almost anywhere. It was nice talking to you. Thanks for your time.