Re: Replace libadwaita with libadapta?
On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM Zeke Williams <lakeleaf8@gmail.com> wrote:
> The linux mint project is hard at work with a soft fork (It derives
> but will have 100% compatibility with libadwaita apps, enough so it's
> just a change of header files) of libadwaita that allows theming
> better handled.
>
> It's version is the same as 24.04 (1.5) and it built perfectly on trixie.
> https://github.com/xapp-project/libadapta
>
> Now, could this be a drop in replacement for libadwaita? Instead of
> using the GNOME sources, use the xapp from github sources?
I don't think that's very practical. libadwaita is under heavy
development. As long as Ubuntu intends to ship the latest GNOME, there
are only a few days for Ubuntu to package a new libadwaita beta
release before Ubuntu's Feature Freeze deadline. The Linux Mint
developers are simply not set up to follow that tight of a schedule.
1.5 is inadequate. Debian 13 is Debian's latest stable release and
already has libadwaita 1.7. Ubuntu 25.10 is in Feature Freeze and has
1.8 Beta.
> Or maybe
> make a patch that diffs the mint differences from GNOME's?
Possibly, but I don't think investigating this is a priority for the
active Debian GNOME members this year.
Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha
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