Would like some help in the theme color generation

[YuvanMichaelVivenzi]

I'm making my own dotfiles and I wanted to know how you guys were able to make colors sync to gtk and kvantum.
I have a working matugen setup but the colors are being overidden by the themes I had set before.
I want you guys to tell me how I can make a independent implementation on syncing the colors.
I could have done it myself but the gtk files are 7000+ lines. How do guys like eliverlara make awesome gtk themes?

[end-4]

for gtk there is a template in matugen's theme repo to change colors. for gtk3 set your theme to adw-gtk3 for a clean gnome look that respects those colors, and for gtk4 you have to restart the apps for them to have the new theme
for qt theme check .config/ags/scripts/kvantum of the dotfiles. basically it takes colloid and does some color replacing

[YuvanMichaelVivenzi]

Okay, So after installing adw-gtk-theme from the arch repos, I got gtk3 to change colors, but gtk4 doesn't change.

I will look into kvantum soon after gtk is sorted out.
I have installed kvlibadwaita just now.

[YuvanMichaelVivenzi]

I haven't got gtk 4 working yet, Although the files have been symlinked to adw-gtk-theme and they have been made read only.
One interesting thing I found. In the settings.ini for gtk4,

[Settings]
gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme=true
gtk-cursor-theme-name=Win10OS-cursors
gtk-cursor-theme-size=24
gtk-decoration-layout=icon:minimize,maximize,close
gtk-enable-animations=true
gtk-font-name=Noto Sans,  10
gtk-icon-theme-name=Fluent-dark
gtk-modules=colorreload-gtk-module:window-decorations-gtk-module
gtk-primary-button-warps-slider=true
gtk-sound-theme-name=ocean
gtk-theme-name=Fluent-round-Dark
gtk-xft-dpi=98304

One interesting setting gtk-theme-name=Fluent-round-Dark. This might be the thing that is overiding the gtk theme, Any guesses on replacing it with some other equivalent or deleting the line entirely?

[YuvanMichaelVivenzi]

I've also tried removing the line and replacing the line with adw-gtk-theme (Not sure if the name's correct), as a seperate case, and each time I tried, it didn't work, even after doing a killall nautilus in the terminal.

[end-4]

i don't even have have settings.ini in gtk4 folder. it's probably doing some unwanted overriding
just rename it to something else like settings.ini.bak and try again

[YuvanMichaelVivenzi]

nope, still no luck

[YuvanMichaelVivenzi]

fyi, I'm looking in ~/.config/gtk-4.0/

[YuvanMichaelVivenzi]

Okay, Now I removed all the files in gtk-4.0 folder and created a new gtk.css and gtk-dark.css with the following line,

@import 'colors.css';

Now gtk works,.

[YuvanMichaelVivenzi]

I've installed qt5ct and qt6ct packages from the Arch repos, opened the qt config apps, selected the fusion style + matugen colors (already configured to auto update in config.toml), Hit apply, put some new qt environment variables in, and was able to get it working. @end-4 I'm closing this now, thanks for your help!