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Iridescence v1.1 — Accent-tinted glass for GNOME

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@pakovm-git pakovm-git released this 08 Nov 22:11
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Iridescence v1.1

Aero-inspired, accent-tinted glass for GNOME Shell and GTK4.

Iridescence gives GNOME a coordinated glass appearance across the desktop and compatible applications. Compared with GNOME’s default theme, it extends your accent color across more surfaces, adds optional translucency, and gives controls and floating surfaces clearer edges and depth while keeping the familiar GNOME layout.

What it offers

  • Coordinated light and dark styling for GNOME Shell and GTK4/libadwaita applications.
  • Three tint strengths: Subtle, Balanced and Rich.
  • A shared transparency level for Shell and applications: Airy, Dense or Opaque.
  • A Shell that can follow your system’s light appearance or remain dark.
  • Consistent styling across menus, Quick Settings, notifications, calendar widgets, OSDs and the lock screen.
  • Solid backings for controls and surfaces that need them for readability.
  • Automatic theme application when enabled and restoration when disabled.
  • An opaque appearance while Power Saver is active, with automatic refresh when the power profile changes.
  • Optional Blur My Shell integration and Flatpak theme access.

This release improves consistency throughout the light and dark variants, refines outlines and shadows, and improves theme application and cleanup.

Blur My Shell

Install Blur My Shell for blurred backgrounds. Iridescence’s optional integration applies a coordinated desktop preset and keeps Overview colors in sync with your appearance.

Enabling the integration replaces Blur My Shell’s appearance settings and pipeline assignments with the Iridescence preset. You can customize them afterward in Blur My Shell. Turning integration off restores previous settings that you haven’t subsequently edited. GNOME’s native lock-screen blur is preserved.

Compatibility and notes

  • For GNOME Shell 49, 50 and 51 and GTK4/libadwaita applications.
  • GTK3 and Qt applications are outside the theme’s scope. Applications with custom styling may look different.
  • GTK refresh can briefly flash while appearance settings are reapplied. Reopen applications that do not update immediately.
  • Flatpak applications may need the optional theme-access setting in Iridescence’s preferences.

Installation

Download the attached iridescence@pakovm.zip and install it with:

gnome-extensions install --force iridescence@pakovm.zip

Log out and back in to load the new extension code, then enable Iridescence using Extensions or Extension Manager. Open its preferences to choose your tint and transparency level.

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