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I do like CLI tools and TUIs but in the article it mentions Gnome style apps don't fit the look. That sounds like a limitation of Omarchy. It's not too bad to

by nickjj 5mo ago

I do like CLI tools and TUIs but in the article it mentions Gnome style apps don't fit the look. That sounds like a limitation of Omarchy. It's not too bad to theme GTK apps and have them all look a consistent way. For example I use Tokyonight Moon and Gruvbox and they both have GTK themes that look great for Firefox, Thunar, GIMP, LibreOffice and more. I don't use Omarchy but here's a few screenshots https://x.com/nickjanetakis/status/2037125261657883061/photo/1 https://x.com/nickjanetakis/status/2037125261657883061/photo.... Nothing fancy was done on my end, just installed the specific GTK themes. They even support live reloading because GTK's tooling supports it, my dotfiles at https://github.com/nickjj/dotfiles https://github.com/nickjj/dotfiles handle all of it for you. I still prefer TUIs but you can have nice looking GUI apps for when you want them.

d3Xt3r 5mo ago
Those apps you mentioned are not your typical modern GTK4/libadwaita apps, so naturally you can theme them. It's the GTK4 apps - and ones which use libadwaita specifically - that cause grief. - Firefox: Uses its own custom rendering engine but interfaces with GTK3. It respects standard GTK3 themes. - Thunar: Uses GTK3 - GIMP: Since v3.0, they now use GTK3 - LibreOffice: Uses its own visual framework (VCL) but has a GTK3 plugin to draw its window frame and menus, and it also respects the system theme. None of these use libadwaita, let alone GTK4, so they're not good examples unfortunately.
- nickjj 5mo ago
  > so they're not good examples unfortunately They're some of the most popular GTK apps available. They seems like a good example to me. The themes I'm using are compatible with GTK4 apps too. I use niri which suggests installing xdg-desktop-portal-gnome which comes with Nautilus which is a GTK4 app. It's perfectly themed just like the GTK3 apps.

by nickjj 5mo ago

d3Xt3r 5mo ago

Those apps you mentioned are not your typical modern GTK4/libadwaita apps, so naturally you can theme them. It's the GTK4 apps - and ones which use libadwaita specifically - that cause grief. - Firefox: Uses its own custom rendering engine but interfaces with GTK3. It respects standard GTK3 themes. - Thunar: Uses GTK3 - GIMP: Since v3.0, they now use GTK3 - LibreOffice: Uses its own visual framework (VCL) but has a GTK3 plugin to draw its window frame and menus, and it also respects the system theme. None of these use libadwaita, let alone GTK4, so they're not good examples unfortunately.

nickjj 5mo ago
> so they're not good examples unfortunately They're some of the most popular GTK apps available. They seems like a good example to me. The themes I'm using are compatible with GTK4 apps too. I use niri which suggests installing xdg-desktop-portal-gnome which comes with Nautilus which is a GTK4 app. It's perfectly themed just like the GTK3 apps.