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The Joy of Linux Theming in the Age of Bootable Containers

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193 points dopple | 3 comments | 20 Apr 25 13:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.696s | source
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OsrsNeedsf2P ◴[20 Apr 25 16:32 UTC] No.43744799[source]▶
Sometimes I wonder why there isn't more enthusiasm around theming. Chicago95[0] is popular, but I also love how Garuda[0] themes KDE. There's some small websites for downloading themes on various DEs, but most of them are a bit jank and it seems built-in support beyond basic things like accents aren't there.

[0] https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95 [1] https://garudalinux.org/editions (screenshots don't do it justice)

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WD-42 ◴[20 Apr 25 16:59 UTC] No.43744959[source]▶
The Gnome/gtk folks have been systematically removing theming capabilities for the last decade+ in the pursuit of an Apple-like philosophy towards ui. This has really killed a lot of theming because so many apps use GTK.
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1. shmerl ◴[21 Apr 25 03:28 UTC] No.43748310[source]▶
KDE is more popular DE than Gnome these days and it's pretty flexible for theming.
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2. WD-42 ◴[21 Apr 25 17:44 UTC] No.43754495[source]▶
I highly doubt this. KDE users are far more vocal. Most people install Ubuntu (which is GNOME by default) use it and are happy with it and never comment about it on the internet.

It's near impossible to have a Linux GUI environment without GTK applications, while the opposite is not true for QT. I have a full desktop setup with GNOME and my machine doesn't even have the QT libraries installed.

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3. shmerl ◴[22 Apr 25 04:24 UTC] No.43759057[source]▶
Some trends and stats on sites that collect info on DE usage indicate that:

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/index.php?module=statistics&vi...

It's totally expected for me, KDE is just better if you want any kind of customization.

It also comes preinstalled on Steam Deck for instance.

From some of the big GTK applications I use are Firefox and Gimp. That's about it, most of everything else is using Qt or is in the process of switching to Qt in my experience (like Audacity).

And from the above, Firefox isn't really using GTK due to some integration with Gnome, they just didn't want to write their own Wayland handling bits. It works on KDE all the same.