what-if: expose yaru-colors in appearance panel

[Muqtxdir]

hi,

after having discussions with @Jannomag. It seemed that it would benefit a lot of ubuntu users to integrate Yaru colors with what if PPA.

Note: This is only targeted toward people who use ubuntu-desktop

TO-DO:

• review what colors to include and which to exclude to avoid conflicts.

  • Aqua
  • Blue
  • Green
  • Lavender
  • Pink
  • Red
  • Yellow

• expose themes as accent-colors in Appearance panel.

  • Rename Window Colors to Style
  • Add HdyPreferencesGroup for Colors
  • Use GtkToggleButton for exposing the default and other 7 colors.
  • Make GtkFlowBoxChild and GtkToggleButton help in switching Style and Colors simultaneously.
  • Add new thumbnails for remaining 7 colors.

• create separate what-if-21.10 branch for ubuntu 21.10

  • GTK-3.0
  • GTK-2.0
  • GTK-4.0
  • Icons
  • GNOME-Shell
  • upload to what if PPA.

• add install instructions to README

other:

• add install instructions.
• backport to 20.04
• port to 22.04

early demo:

2022-01-31.19-59-49.mp4

Fixes: #129, #124, #122, #120, #111

Thanks!

[Muqtxdir]

Yaru-colors is now packaged for what -if PPA for ubuntu 21.10.

install:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:muqtxdir-m/what-if
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

uninstall:

sudo apt install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:muqtxdir-m/what-if

[Muqtxdir]

hi @Mek101

could you update/build Yaru-Aqua, Yaru-Blue, Yaru-Green, Yaru-Lavender, Yaru-Pink, Yaru-Red, Yaru-Yellow from what-if-21.10 branch for the Flatpak themes?

[Mek101]

Note: This is only targeted toward people who use ubuntu-desktop

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Also, I would like to have a confirm by @Jannomag or somebody with push privileges, if possible

[Jannomag]

Note: This is only targeted toward people who use ubuntu-desktop

?

Also, I would like to have a confirm by @Jannomag or somebody with push privileges, if possible

I can confirm whatever @Muqtxdir says...

Tbh, I stopped working on Yaru-Colors since the current changes on Ubuntu-Desktop and also Gnome will brake the limits of my knowledge.
@Muqtxdir is collaborator of this repo and he has my permission to do whatever he wants with this project.

Maybe in the future I will be back again, but no promises.

[Muqtxdir]

Note: This is only targeted toward people who use ubuntu-desktop

?

Also, I would like to have a confirm by @Jannomag or somebody with push privileges, if possible

I decided to only target ubuntu-desktop, because it's the one I use and most of yaru-colors users are on. I can't make out time to test and build for all the colors provided by yaru-colors. So I mentioned Jan that I'd use around 7 other colors mentioned above to keep it specific for what if PPA and integrate it closely with GNOME-Shell (you wouldn't need user themes extension for changing GNOME Shell themes ) and gnome-control-center

If someone else is interested in covering all the yaru-colors and keeping it distribution agnostic, they can make PR for that : )

[Mek101]

@Muqtxdir the tool I wrote to manage all the combinations only supports creating manifests from the releases. Could you make one?

[Muqtxdir]

done, please take look at the releases page

[Mek101]

Should be updated. Could you check if everything works for you?

[Muqtxdir]

Should be updated. Could you check if everything works for you?

It looks like there are two branches for themes, why are there multiple branches?

   1) runtime/org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Yaru-Blue-dark/x86_64/stable           <----It looks you updated this 
   2) runtime/org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Yaru-Blue-dark/x86_64/3.22

[Mek101]

I "deprecated" the 3.22 branch last year: flathub/org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Yaru-Amber@cd95b57
Mostly because I didn't really see the point of having multiple branches for what, at the end, is a Gtk 3 theme