On 10/12/24 7:11 PM, Masaru Nomiya wrote:
My old wife solves the Sudoku puzzles that appear in the newspaper every morning. I don't think you're the same, but my wife's aim is to prevent senility. (^^;;
What makes you think it's any different here :)
DCR> Has anyone seen similar behavior from gtk apps? Any idea what DCR> change could have caused dark theme interpretation to change DCR> as shown in the screenshot? [...]
The reason is that you are not a Gnome user. In other words, for Gnome users, the Sudoku look and feel will remain the same as before.
I STRONGLY want to know how to make Gnome apps reflect settings in other DEs!
Therein lies the rub. Gnome has co-opted the (Gimp Toolkit - Gtk) as its own library and has no problem breaking backwards compatibility with the changes Gnome makes for its own purposes, community developers using the toolkit be damned. That is so contrary to how open-source is supposed to work. For years Gtk was the go-to toolkit for app developers. Look at the number of non-Gnome Gtk apps out there. Those apps were written when the toolkit was maintained in a sane way to prevent Gtk apps from suddenly breaking. Now, what worked yesterday may no longer work today in the Gtk world and all those apps are just screwed unless the maintainer has time to follow gnome commits and continually update to fix what gnome breaks -- that's totally unrealistic. Gtk+3 was bad enough with each point release breaking theme compatibility, but Gtk4 is just off the rails with its coupling the libadwaita dependency with the Gimp Toolkit. The community likes Gnome/Gtk4 like Linus loves Nvidia... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.