Instead of the patched libAdwaita, just ship libAdapta named like libAdwaita

[Secret-chest]

The patched libAdwaita only allows changing one accent colour. This is too little. You could ship libAdapta instead of libAdwaita and have the apps use it instead, because they're actually quite easy to fix if the theme author wants to.

This is GNOME Maps with a custom GTK theme based on Materia (forced using GTK_THEME); besides changing the colours, the only changes made for libAdwaita were 5 lines:

Also, this is the theme repository.

[Axel-Erfurt]

The README says:
Unsupported Apps and Desktops - libAdwaita apps

[Secret-chest]

Yes, I have patched it and when forced on libAdwaita apps it looks like in the screenshot.

[JosephMcc]

The patched libAdwaita only allows changing one accent colour

No, it doesn't. It allows full theming. Have you actually tried it?

You could ship libAdapta instead of libAdwaita and have the apps use it instead, because they're actually quite easy to fix if the theme author wants to.

Mint will ship libadapta as well. I'm pretty sure the Mint devs have no intention of patching every libadwaita app to use it. That would be a huge waste of time and effort.

[Secret-chest]

I am quite confused. If the patched libAdwaita has full themeing, how is it different to libAdapta?

[Secret-chest]

Also, is libAdapta for new XApps?

[Axel-Erfurt]

libAdapta has full themeing.

[Secret-chest]

But it was said above that patched adwaita also has

[Axel-Erfurt]

I think libadapta is the patched libadwaita

[Secret-chest]

The latest monthly news say they are not the same.

[Axel-Erfurt]

I did'nt say they are the same.

In the scope of XApp and for our own projects, libAdwaita was forked into libAdapta:
LibAdapta is libAdwaita with theme support and a few extra.
It provides the same features and the same look as libAdwaita by default.

[LinuxGuy-cyber]

I have 2 questions:

1. Will new GNOME Circle Apps I install automatically use libAdapta instead of libAdwaita in Mint?
2. Let's say the answer to 1 is No. Then, if an app developer uses libAdapta instead of libAdwaita in their apps, will it work in GNOME?

[Secret-chest]

The first point isn't true but it will function the same, instead using Mint-patched libAdwaita which can also load themes. That has the exact same API unlike libAdapta which may get additions.

The second one is true. libAdapta uses the same theme as libAdwaita if no compatible theme is provided. In GNOME, as their GTK theme won't have a libAdapta version, libAdapta will look exactly like libAdwaita apss.

[JosephMcc]

There is an misunderstanding about all of this. Mint will ship a patched version of libadwaita with it's next release. That means libadwaita apps you install in Mint, from the repos, will use your system theme if it has proper support. If your theme does not support it, they will just look like libadwaita apps. If you want to see how that's done, look at the Mint-Y themes here on github. Support has already been added to those themes.

Libadapta is a fork of libadwaita. It is a new library that can be used to build apps from the start. Currently it is pretty much identical to libadwaita.

[LinuxGuy-cyber]

So, if I am not wrong, for libAdapta to work:

1. The app developer must use libAdapta instead of libAdwaita
2. The theme developer must include support for libAdapta

[Secret-chest]

No. From more recent information, both libAdapta and libAdwaita apps when running on Mint (no recompilation) support full themes, the difference is that libAdapta may include additions used by Lm.

As for point 2, both libraries require theme support, but from what I have tested, often the required changes are minimal.