Release - 1.0 Themes As you would expect, it has all the obvious theming features of Gnome Tweaks minus the fonts part. You can change the GTK Theme, change icons and more. What Tweaks does not support as of now is GTK 4 theming and this is where Evolve starts to make a difference. Evolve provides you not only with complete GTK 4 support but also Global Themes which take care of everything starting from applying gtk-3.0 theme, gnome-shell theme and even gtk-4.0 theme. Applying a Global Theme app

Hasn’t been released fully yet by the developer but looks interesting.

Edit: Video says repo is on its way

Using a YouTube link intentionally— better people redirect to their own choice piped or invidious instance that they’re logged into (various redirect tools available)

Edit: Repo link here https://github.com/arcnations-united/evolve

  • Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
    13·
    10 months ago

    GNOME is notorious for being against themes the way Evolve does it, mainly because themes might override default themes set by the app developers. While it does result in GNOME being more polished and coherent, some feel that it’s too limiting, especially with an ecosystem like Linux’s. It’s essentially the trade-off you get.

    Libadwaita is notorious for this - libadwaita does not allow theming by default, and apps stick out like a sore thumb on anything that doesn’t run GNOME. Gradience helps match libadwaita apps to a colour scheme, and it’s what I use to make Easy Effects blend as well as possible with KDE (FWIW, Easy Effects has no KDE equivalent).

      • justJanne@startrek.website
        81·
        10 months ago

        Unless you’re writing ruby on rails on a 13" macbook, you’ll run into Gnome’s limitations when working.

        Gnome is in many ways so focused that it makes a lot of productivity use impossible. You always have to open the menu to launch software, you’ve got no system tray, and worst of all, Gnome apps are so simplified that you constantly run into the limitations when using it productively.

        When working with dozens of windows open at the same time across multiple monitors, I’m a fan of KDE. And KDE apps tend to also have all the extra features I need to handle weird situations, files, and edge cases.

        • TeryVeneno@lemmy.ml
          3·
          10 months ago

          Might I ask what you do for work? I do software development stuff at my job and I’ve found gnome lets me be like 3x as productive as other desktops. The simple desktop experience coupled with the robust app ecosystem simply can’t be found anywhere else. I use like 3 monitors with dozens of apps open as well.

          • justJanne@startrek.website
            5·
            10 months ago

            I’m a software dev as well.

            But I often layer multiple windows in the same tile of the screen. e.g. I may have the IDE with the software I’m working on in one tile, the IDE with the library source code I’m working with in the second tile, and a live build of the app in the third tile. But I’ve also got documentation, as a website, in the same tile as the IDE with the lib’s source.

            Now when I switch between the IDE with the lib’s source, and the browser with the lib’s documentation, I only want that tile to change. No problem, with KDEs taskbar and window switcher I can quickly do that.

            But when using the applications menu on Gnome I get a disrupting UI across all screens that immediately rips me out of whatever I was doing.

            • TeryVeneno@lemmy.ml
              2·
              10 months ago

              I guess that’s fair, I rarely need to switch between windows that heavily so workspaces setup with what I need when I need to switch makes vanilla gnome work perfectly for me. Especially since hitting the super key let’s me see everything at a glance. I also hate tiled setups since they make me super unproductive as the windows are more cumbersome when they aren’t maximized or floating.

              Something about whitespace and negatives I guess. Same thing that makes libadwaita the nicest ui toolkit to me. Kde was just too busy while libadwaita and gnome struck the best balance between usability and visuals.

              I think it’s just a case of different people enjoying different things.

                • TeryVeneno@lemmy.ml
                  1·
                  10 months ago

                  I kinda just do, I press super maybe once every 10 minutes or so and just see all my windows. It takes me maybe half a second to find what I want and that’s it. Less time if I’ve already setup my workspaces as I can just three finger swipe or super plus scroll to get to what I want. Pretty simple.

        • Yer Ma@lemm.ee
          1·
          10 months ago

          Maybe you should try out some of the most popular Gnome extensions that address those situations?

          • justJanne@startrek.website
            2·
            10 months ago

            I tried that, but IMO it’s much simpler and more robust to just configure KDE than to install a dozen Gnome extensions that end up broken after updates anyway.

            • Yer Ma@lemm.ee
              2·
              10 months ago

              To each their own, the point is that for people that like Gnome there are options to customize it for many workflows