Sweet theme

[Gigas002]

Hello, and thank you for your amazing project!
I wanted to port my favorite KDE Plasma theme to hyprland, and looked at your Synth-Wave for a reference, but since my knowledge related to theming is close to 0 I have some questions to ask.

First of all, here's all the sweet-theme related repos:

• sweet (nova branch) -- gtk2/3/4, gnome-shell, sddm, kvantum, cursors, etc
• sweet-kde -- kde-specific stuff (content's not the same, as in kde directory in repo above)
• firefox-sweet-theme -- sweet theme for firefox
• sweet-vscode -- vscode theme
• sweet-vscode-icons -- icons for sweet vscode theme
• sweet-folders -- folders icons
• candy-icons -- icons

As far as I could understand basing on Synth-Wave repo, the

sweet/gnome-shell
sweet/gtk-2.0
sweet/gtk-3.0
sweet/gtk-4.0

Should go into something like $theme/Source/arcs/Gtk_$theme.tar.xz/$theme/

candy-icons -> $theme/Source/arcs/Icon_$icon_theme.tar.xz/$icon_theme/

sweet/kde/Kvantum/Sweet -> $theme/Configs/.config/Kvantum/$theme

And also. judging by readme in sweet repo and a Synth-Wave hyprland config, I should put these lines in $theme/Configs/.config/hypr/themes/$theme.conf:

exec = gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface icon-theme '$icon_theme'
exec = gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-theme '$theme'
exec = gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences theme '$theme'

That's about as much I could figure out. Now's the time for the questions:

1. Is this enough for a themepatcher.sh to grab a theme and it will work?
2. Can any of the other configs in sweet repos be somehow added/ported into theme? I especially worry about qt5ct stuff, since it's not existent into sweet project, so if I could look for colors in some of other existing config and like copy-paste it into qt5ct one I'd do so, but I just lack knowledge of what all these theme files do

[kRHYME7]

Wow! A new theme is coming up!

The patcher will find these files with that file system in the directory

This one too

Is this enough for a themepatcher.sh to grab a theme and it will work?

As long as you give a consistent Theme name I guess it would work

Can any of the other configs in sweet repos be somehow added/ported into theme? I especially worry about qt5ct stuff, since it's not existent into sweet project, so if I could look for colors in some of other existing config and like copy-paste it into qt5ct one I'd do so, but I just lack knowledge of what all these theme files do

As long as those colors are written inside ".config/qt5ct/colors/$Fav_Theme.conf"

Please let us know if it is ready to test! Thanks. Also for reference visit @T-Crypt repo as he had some Themes.

Also if you have time, here's the On the making of the script
#468
#526

[Gigas002]

Hello! Thank you for your answer. I've started working on a theme in my repo and tried it out. For now some parts are working, some are not, and some are not quite as good as they should be. I hope to figure it out. Would be glad, if users, that are more experienced in theming would help me!

[kRHYME7]

Hyprdots theme patch "Sweet" "https://github.com/gigas002/hyprdots-sweet" "eliverLara.sweet-vscode~Sweet vscode"
For the extension you should add a default label into it.

Fot this as Example: "eliverLara.sweet-vscode~Sweet vscode"
eliverLara.sweet-vscode <<< This is the folder name also an the extension ID , I prefer it to be in lowercase incase as ~/.vscode/extensions directory list extension on this format

~ <<< This is the delimitter to differentiate the ext ID and the actual Theme name.

Sweet vscode <<< Upon deciding the extension theme the maintainer should explicitly give the default theme

also I recommen enclosing the extension with ' ' than " " just in case.

you can read its labels inside (for this extension)
~/.vscode/extensions/eliverlara.sweet-vscode-1.1.1/package.json
You might see more or just a single theme. The One we needed is the Label part.

so here's the working one

Hyprdots theme patch "Sweet" "https://github.com/gigas002/hyprdots-sweet" "eliverLara.sweet-vscode~Sweet vscode"

if you see that it still not working delete first the line of the theme in ~/.config/hypr/theme.ctl also maybe uninstall the extension...

OR user can just run Hyprdots code select and select the theme of the extension

Fore Demo: using Gruvbox

[Gigas002]

I see, thank you for advices! Going to update the theme when I'll have some more time for testing

[Gigas002]

So, after a brief testing I have more questions, than answers. Sorry if these are stupid, but I couldn't figure it out by myself. Hope I'll get through it

1. None of the gtk-4.0 themes doesn't work (tested with gnome-calculator). Tried changing the symlink in ~/.config/gtk-4.0 to a different themes, but nothing helped. The symlink also wasn't updated, when I changed the theme to sweet
2. How can I configure the colors of qt5ct? Would be glad, if someone will show me the doc pages or something, because it's colors config contains some random repeating colors over and over without any notes for what it stands for. The qt5ct/qt6ct repo doesn't have such manual either...
3. How's the waybar theme changing works? I see that there's a ~/.config/waybar/themes/theme.css file, which symlinks to ~/.config/waybar/themes/Wall-Dcol.css, but the values inside this file are not the same, as in corresponding theme (e.g. when choosing Synth-Wave the colors in Synth-Wave.css and Wall-Dcol.css doesn't match)
4. How can I apply the cursor theme? It works for other themes, but not for mine. I tried setting exec = gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface cursor-theme 'Sweet-cursors' in hypr/themes/Sweet.conf but no success
5. firefox theme isn't applied on theme change. Though I doubt it's a theme issue, probably it's just not implemented yet
6. Can the splashscreen be customized with theme?

[kRHYME7]

@Gigas002 Hello! Sorry for the late reply. Github notifs are surely problematic.
@prasanthrangan I'll be pinging the Owner to this discussion maybe he can give more insights. I'll try to answer some of this questions too .

[Gigas002]

Sorry, I wasn't working on it lately, but hope I'll get to test some more stuff this weekend.
Will update the status when/if I achieve some progress on the theme

[Gigas002]

@kRHYME7 Sorry to disturb you. Just wanted to notify, that theme is in kinda working state, since you've been interested in it too. I've been using it for 2 or 3 months and didn't experienced major issues
https://github.com/Gigas002/hyprdots-sweet

[kRHYME7]

I got errors with themepatcher. (aside from the svg, i touch it)

Can you recompress the tarball ? tar -tf should provide the one I circled.

Dunno if themepatcher should tolerate a file tree other than Theme/.... e.g ./Theme/..... Will ask @prasanthrangan about it

Also it's better to remove other unrelated tarball

Here's the diff

diff --git a/Source/arcs/Cursor_Sweet-cursors.tar.xz b/Source/arcs/Cursor_Sweet-cursors.tar.xz
deleted file mode 100644
index d9ce9f3..0000000
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diff --git a/Source/arcs/Firefox_Sweet.tar.xz b/Source/arcs/Firefox_Sweet.tar.xz
deleted file mode 100644
index 4741006..0000000
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diff --git a/Source/arcs/Icon_Sweet-Blue-Filled.tar.xz b/Source/arcs/Icon_Sweet-Blue-Filled.tar.xz
deleted file mode 100644
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diff --git a/Source/arcs/Icon_Sweet-Blue.tar.xz b/Source/arcs/Icon_Sweet-Blue.tar.xz
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diff --git a/Source/arcs/Icon_Sweet-Mars.tar.xz b/Source/arcs/Icon_Sweet-Mars.tar.xz
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diff --git a/Source/arcs/Icon_Sweet-Purple-Filled.tar.xz b/Source/arcs/Icon_Sweet-Purple-Filled.tar.xz
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diff --git a/Source/arcs/Icon_Sweet-Purple.tar.xz b/Source/arcs/Icon_Sweet-Purple.tar.xz
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diff --git a/Source/arcs/Icon_candy-icons.tar.xz b/Source/arcs/Icon_candy-icons.tar.xz
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diff --git a/Source/arcs/Sddm_Sweet.tar.xz b/Source/arcs/Sddm_Sweet.tar.xz
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[Gigas002]

Thanks! Pushed these changes.

[kRHYME7]

Extra arcs could cause errors

[kRHYME7]

Will try to revise the themepatcher to tolerate these errors.

[kRHYME7]

BTW if you got some time can also add this theme in this repo

https://github.com/kRHYME7/hyde-gallery/blob/hyde-gallery/hyde-themes.db So that users will have the chance to choose themes at fresh install ?