An adaptive Gtk+ theme based on Material Design Guidelines.
Adapta strongly depends on Material Design resources, especially its fonts.
- Very famous as the default truetype font in Android (English ver.).
- Multilingual support is not good.
- Weight used in Adapta: 300, 400, 500, 700
- Noto (NO TOfu) sans-serif truetype/opentype font covers a lot of languages.
- Developed by Monotype and Adobe.
- Weight used in Adapta: 400, (500), 700
Primary | Secondary | Fallback | |
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Gnome-Shell >= 3.26 | Roboto | NotoSans | Sans-serif |
Gnome-Shell =< 3.24 | NotoSans | Sans-serif | |
Cinnamon | NotoSans | Sans-serif |
Note:
- Roboto is very nice with Adapta, but in some locales, it causes Tofu.
- NotoSans may work well in vairous locales, but NotoSans lacks 500 (Medium) weight. So elements defined with 500 will be drawn with 400 automatically.
- NotoSans CJK supports 500 weight.
- NotoSans is used as the 'password chars U+25CF' only in Gnome-Shell >= 3.26.
Adapta is designed with nominal 13px (or 14px) Roboto font.
In Gnome, "window-scaling-factor = 1.0" means -gtk-dpi = 96
, it also means:
13 [px] x 72 [pt/inch] / 96 [px/inch] = 9.75 [pt]
14 [px] x 72 [pt/inch] / 96 [px/inch] = 10.5 [pt]
That's the reason why 13.33px = 10pt
is used for rem/px conversion in Gtk+ 3.2x theming (In Gtk+ 3.18.x theming, em unit is directly used).
Note:
NotoSans CJK (ChineseJapaneseKorean) opentype fonts are actually 0.1em taller than Roboto fonts, so if 10pt Roboto was suitable on your LCDs, set 9pt for NotoSans CJK families.
Verify the fonts are rendered correctly via font-viewer tools like Gnome-Font-Viewer.
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Note:
- Nokto is a dark variant.
- Eta is a tiny Gtk+ 2.x/3.2x Gtk+ widget variant for saving space.
- I suggest you use the Eta variants if your LCD resolution is lower than FHD (1080p). Eta draws widgets around -20% to -30% spacing.
- Metacity theming supports Eta variants (>= 3.20.x or 3.22.x).
Adapta supports Gtk+ 3.22.x and 3.20.x
* Gtk+-3.0 >= 3.20.0
* Gtk+-2.0 >= 2.24.30
* gtk2-engines-pixbuf >= 2.24.30
* gtk2-engines-murrine >= 0.98.1
* GNOME-Shell >= 3.20.0
* GNOME-Flashback >= 3.20
* Budgie-Desktop >= 10.4
* Cinnamon >= 2.8.6
* XFce4 >= 4.12.2
* Mate >= 1.14.0
* LXDE >= 0.99.1 (Gtk+ 2.x only)
- Pantheon
- Unity7
Note:
- Adapta does NOT support elementaryOS.
Package(s) can be found in the official main repositories of these distributions:
-
Arch (community)
-
Fedora
-
openSUSE (Tumbleweed)
-
Solus
Personal repository:
- PPA: Stable-channel and Dev-channel
- If previous versions were installed/existed, remove them first.
sudo rm -rf /usr/share/themes/{Adapta,Adapta-Eta,Adapta-Nokto,Adapta-Nokto-Eta}
rm -rf ~/.local/share/themes/{Adapta,Adapta-Eta,Adapta-Nokto,Adapta-Nokto-Eta}
rm -rf ~/.themes/{Adapta,Adapta-Eta,Adapta-Nokto,Adapta-Nokto-Eta}
- Check build-requirements: Currently Adapta bundles neither pre-generated stylesheets nor PNG images. So users and/or contributors should generate proper CSSs, PNGs and gresources at build-time.
* autoconf
* automake
* inkscape >= 0.91
* libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev (gdk-pixbuf2-devel) >= 2.32.2
* libglib2.0-dev (glib2-devel) >= 2.48.0
* libsass0 (libsass) >= 3.3
* libxml2-utils (libxml2)
* pkg-config (pkgconfig)
* sassc >= 3.3
* parallel (if --enable-parallel)
Note:
In OpenSUSE, add an extra dependency:
gdk-pixbuf-devel >= 2.32.2
Adapta employs SassC wrapper of
libsass
to generate CSS stylesheets.Adapta uses
inkscape
to generate installable PNG files.Adapta uses
glib-compile-resources
to compile the gresource files for Gtk+ and Gnome-Shell.
glib-2.0 >= 2.53
, Gnome-Shell 3.26 theming is used if--enable-gnome
.
- Build and install system-wide:
./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install
Note:
- Default prefix is
/usr
.- All 4 variants are installed by default.
make
generates proper CSSs and PNGs to be installed. It will take about 5min to 15min to build. For example, Ubuntu's build-server takes 10min.sudo make install
installs multiple versioned theme and Gtk+ automatically selects the properly versioned one when running.
- To speed up by using concurrency-build, pass this specific option to
autogen.sh
:
--enable-parallel enable parallel-build support (type: bool)
Note:
- This feature requires GNU
parallel
, so please addparallel
to build-requirements. Parallel can execute multiple scripts and binaries to be suitable for multi-threading. It could especially shorten the rendering-time viainkscape
.-jN
option to be passed to GNUmake
is surely usable, but Adapta currently employsparallel
.- This feature should not be applied when packaging on remote/shared build-servers.
- To disable some DE supports, pass these specific options to
autogen.sh
:
--disable-gnome disable gnome-shell support (type: bool)
--disable-cinnamon disable cinnamon support (type: bool)
--disable-flashback disable flashback support (type: bool)
--disable-xfce disable xfce support (type: bool)
--disable-mate disable mate support (type: bool)
--disable-openbox disable openbox support (type: bool)
Note:
- The installer installs Budgie-Desktop support even if all of options above were applied.
- Cinnamon/Mate support hooks
metacity-1
directory even if GNOME-Flashback support was disabled.
- To enable extra Gtk+ release support, pass these options:
--enable-gtk_next enable Gtk+ 4.0 support (type: bool)
- To change the default 4 Key-Colors, pass these options:
--with-selection_color Primary color for 'selected-items' (Default: #00BCD4 = Cyan500, type: string)
--with-accent_color Secondary color for notifications and OSDs (Default: #4DB6AC = Teal300, type: string)
--with-suggestion_color Secondary color for 'suggested' buttons (Default: #009688 = Teal500, type: string)
--with-destruction_color Tertiary color for 'destructive' buttons (Default: #FF5252 = RedA200, type: string)
Note:
Color-codes are defined as
#
+ 6-digitHEX
s (Standard RGB definitions in HTML codes). Uppercases are strongly recommended in Adapta code-base.The Material Design Color Palette can be found here.
Example: If you would like to use 'Teal500' as selection_color, use this:
./autogen.sh --with-selection_color=#009688
This switchese the theme to almost Teal key colors.
Basically
selection_color
andsuggestion_color
should use500
colors, andaccent_color
should use300
colors.While doing
make
, Adapta changes those 4 colors in all stylesheets and images, andmake clean
cleans up all generated files from source directories.This feature unfortunately is not supported in
Openbox-3
andTelegram 1.0
theming.
A theme file adapta.xml
is installed by default into Adapta(-Nokto)/gedit
directory.
See details in README.md.
Note:
- The color-scheme can be used in Gnome-Builder, Gnome-Sushi, Meld and Gedit if installed to
~/.local/share/gtksourceview-3.0/styles
directory.- Currently only dark-variant is supported.
-
Linux-themes (Author: SolarLiner): Visual Studio Marketplace
-
Vscode-theme-adapted (Author: About-Code): Github
To try legacy Chrome(ium) specific theming (< 59.0.30xx
), pass this option:
--enable-chrome-legacy enable legacy Chrome(ium) support (type: bool)
The compressed crx
files will be installed into Adapta/chrome
and Adapta-Nokto/chrome
.
Note:
Chrome(ium) 59.0.30xx or newer, theming is pulled from Gtk+ 3.x directly. So
Settings > Appearance > Themes
should beGTK+
.Vivaldi can make custom themes via settings like these:
Background: #FAFBFC (#263238) Foreground: #263238 (#CFD8DC) Highlight: #00BCD4 Accent: #222D32 Accent Color from Active Page: [ ] Apply Accent Color to Window: [*] Transparent Tabs: [*] Corner Rounding: 2px
To try "Plank" theming, pass this option:
--enable-plank enable Plank support (type: bool)
Then select Gtk+
via plank --preferences
.
Note:
- Both Adapta and Adapta-Nokto shares the same theming.
- Don't expect too much. Plank is NOT a themeable widget for me!
Compton is the famous stand-alone compositor that works well with the Openbox window-manager. The installer installs recommended configuration file compton.conf
into Adapta/openbox-3
directory if Openbox support is enabled.
Next, copy that file into ~/.config/
and restart compton to read the settings. That compositor still has some limitations in its features for Adapta, however.
To try "Telegram 1.0" theming, pass this option:
--enable-telegram enable Telegram 1.0 support (type: bool)
The installer installs compressed tdesktop-theme
files into Adapta/telegram
and Adapta-Nokto/telegram
directories if Telegram support is enabled.
Then open the file via Telegram > Main Menu > Settings > Chat background > Choose from file.
Note:
- The
adapta.tdesktop-theme
is for light-variant, andadapta-nokto.tdesktop-theme
is for dark-variant.- Bundled noise-texture images are for tiled mode.
- Telegram support is a W.I.P currently.
This is a list of community projects, related to Adapta:
- Adapta KDE - Port of this theme to KDE Plasma 5.
- Discord-Adapta-Nokto - Adapta-oriented theme for Discord
- Performance tuning
- Conversion to Gtk+ 4.0
- Prepare for Meson build system (priority: high)
- Prepare for x3 scaling (priority: mid or low)
GPLv2.0
Note:
SVG files are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. And an icon-theme in Cinnamon thumbnails: Paper Icons by Sam Hewitt is licensed under CC-SA-4.0.
Nana-4, the developer of Materia (formerly Flat-Plat).