#matede — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #matede, aggregated by home.social.
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https://thoughts.greyh.at/posts/celestial-gtk-theme/
@zquestz published an article on Gtk theming which I found fascinating. It is an overview of the kind of things you have to consider when trying to create your own theme for #Linux . He fusses over the little details that are very important when doing UI/UX design properly. He also made sure the themes worked properly on various Gtk desktop environments, including Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce (three of the best DEs, in my humble opinion).
He also mentions the qt6gtk2 plugin for Qt which I did not know about. It translates Gtk themes to Qt themes so all of your applications, whether they use Gtk or Qt, have the correct theme. This is extremely useful since the impedance mismatch between Qt and Gtk is the biggest source of UI/UX inconsistencies in Linux apps.
#tech #software #Linux #UI #UX #theming #LinuxThemes #CinnamonDE #Xfce #MateDE #LinuxMint #Xubuntu #UbuntuMATE #ArchLinux #Gtk #Gtk2 #Gtk3 #Qt5 #Qt6 #UnixPorn #ricing
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I've tried running #Debain (my distro of choice) #Ubuntu #Fedora #Solus #Manjaro and a few others mixed with #XFCE #MATEde & #budgie on this MacBook a1181
Debian + XFCE or MATE was the only combination that worked.
Manjaro + XFCE, MATE & Cinnamon somewhat worked but was picky about booting and the system would lock up completely often.
I thought about giving #ArchLinux a try before reinstalling Debian & XFCE but I didn't feel like possibly wasting my time getting it up and running. A quick search to see if there was any quick graphical installer for Arch brought me to EndeavourOS. I selected #Gnome3 by mistake somehow and it's running better than my Debain install. And I didn't have to dick around to get the wifi working!