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

No matter what language you want to use to program your Gtk app, read the Python tutorial to get started, even if you are not going to write your app in Python.

So far it has been the most comprehensive and well-written tutorials I have ever seen for Gtk, and explains important concepts even better than the official documentation does. What applies to Gtk programming Python applies to most any other programming language as well, especially scripting languages, so what you learn from this tutorial will apply to your use case as well.

Gtk is a cross-platform GUI toolkit that serves as infrastructure for Linux/BSDUnix desktop environments like Gnome, Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce. Gtk apps can build and run on Mac OS and Windows without too much difficulty. Though Gtk is written in C it supports very a wide range of programming languages for application programming such as Python, JavaScript, Ruby, Lua, most of Lisp the Lisp family, Java, Vala, C#, even C++ if you are a masochist. Because of this, it never occurred to me that if I wanted to learn more about Gtk programming, I should read a tutorial for one specific language (Python). Now that I have read it, I wish I had known this sooner, so I am telling everyone here on the fediverse.

EDIT: I forgot to mention, you can download the entire tutorial locally as HTML, PDF, or EPUB so that you can hack offline as well!

#tech #software #Linux #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #Gtk #GUI #AppDev #NativeApp #NativeAppDev #GnomeDE #MateDE #CinnamonDE #Xfce #Python #Lua #Lisp #JavaScript #Ruby #Lua #Java #ValaLang #SchemeLang #CPlusPlus #GCC #MacOS #MSWindows