Partial GNOME 46 support about matcha-gtk-theme HOT 17 CLOSED

@superuser-miguel @salazarbarrera
I noticed I made a big mistake, its not the contents of the repo folder you have to copy, sorry!

You want to install the theme first through

./install

Then copy the contents of ~/.themes/<MatchaVariantYouWant>/gtk-3.0 to ~/.config/gtk-3.0 and the same for gtk-4.0, so from ~/.themes/<MatchaVariantYouWant>/gtk-4.0 to ~/.config/gtk-4.0

Again, so sorry for the confusion. :(

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ooooh I got you. Unfortunately it doesn't work. For the record, I already did something similar before trying this. I linked the files from one directory to the other as it was instructed in the output of the package manager

To force Libadwaita appliations to use the gtk-4.0 theme,
symlink the gtk-4.0 theme to config folder
(replace Matcha-dark-sea with chosen theme variant):

mkdir -p ~/.config/gtk-4.0/
ln -sf /usr/share/themes/Matcha-dark-sea/gtk-4.0/{assets,gtk.css,gtk-dark.css} ~/.config/gtk-4.0/

But copying the files as you suggested didn't work either.

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Erm... guys, the install script does this automatically. RTFM

  -l, --libadwaita         Force all libadwaita app use linked gtk-4.0 theme

Having said that, I too would like to add my voice to the chorus of "notifications are broken".

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... Manjaro with gnome 46 will break lots of stuff anyway :) As it did for me.

Yes, the only viable workaround is to stick with the old version, there is a downgrade tool for Manjaro.

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Yeah, could @vinceliuice possibly apply the same fixes that applies to the other themes - hopefully this will fix the problem?

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i would also appreciate it if the border: none; fix could be implemented here

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Fixed now

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Still broken. I have tried using the CSS with Gradience. What else can I try ?

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Still broken. I have tried using the CSS with Gradience. What else can I try ?

You can try replacing the content of your ~/.config/gtk-3.0 with the gtk-3.0 folder contents of the repository, and do the same for the ~/.config/gtk-4.0, replacing it with the content of gtk-4.0.

Make a backup of those folder before doing this!

Afterwards, try a reboot and it should work fine :)

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@RaulRohjans While it has fixed some apps that didn't work prior, Notifications are completely broken. Any other things to try that come to mind?

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@superuser-miguel Not a lot, no. Have you tried completely removing the theme's files and reinstalling from source? The issue is fixed, it seems your system is reading an older version of your theme install

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@RaulRohjans I'll have to give that a try now. I get a lot of notifications so it's really a bother at the moment.

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As @karolyi mentioned in #232 , the exact same thing happens in GNOME 45.4. It's important to note that in our case, matcha broke after updating matcha by upgrading the matcha-gtk-theme from 20231030-2 to 20240501-1. Not after updating GNOME.

Let me try something, I'll downgrade I'll come later.

Edit: Yep, it worked. It doesn't seem to be a GNOME issue. I'll try your fix by updating and copying the stuff on the repo now. Let's see how it goes.

Edit 2: No, I think I didn't understand what you said. @RaulRohjans when you say "gtk-3.0 folder contents of the repository", which repository are we talking about?

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@salazarbarrera This one, Matcha-gtk-theme the folder paths are the following:

/src/gtk/gtk-3.0
/src/gtk/gtk-4.0

You copy the contents from those into your user folders respectively.

~/.config/gtk-3.0
~/.config/gtk-4.0

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Oooh, copying into, I thought you meant replace the whole directory. Since the contents are so different. I'm on my phone now, but I'll try it later.

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For now I am back to how it was when I sent the first message as the responses and recommendations did not work. I do see some new information here, so i will try those. I reverted in part because it did nothing for notifications and various elements were broken afterwards.

I'll report back with updates later.

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Tangentially related to the issue:
Manjaro recently sent a stable update package for GNOME Shell, going from 1:45.4-1 to the 1:46.1-1 version of the Arch package (I think it's irrelevant, but gnome-tweaks also updated from 45.1-1 to 46.1-1 accordingly). After this, the notifications problem was fixed:

On the opposite side, downgrading Matcha to its 20231030-2 Arch package (the one which worked with GNOME 45), causes a similar bug in GNOME 46.

In summary, and based only in what I've experienced with my machine with this distro:

• The current 20240501-1 matcha-gtk-theme release works with GNOME 46.1, but shows unreadable giant notifications in 45.4.
• The previous 20231030-2 matcha-gtk-theme release works with GNOME 45.4, but shows unreadable giant notifications in 46.1.

So, for some reason (which I don't know because I have never themed GNOME by myself), the last version of the theme is not backwards compatible with GNOME 45, and GNOME 46 doesn't support the previous version. So, my recommendation would be that everyone sticks with the old Matcha version until their distro decides to upgrade GNOME.

Edit: And to stay on-topic with the issue. I would say @vinceliuice indeed fixed the "Partial GNOME 46 support" issue, and it's rightfully closed, it's only that said fix broke GNOME 45 support. I don't know if vinceliuice wants to give backwards support, they could just move on. Any talk about GNOME 45 should be continued in issue #232 and keep this one closed.

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