MyAdwaita-Colors

• A gnome-shell theme ( gnome v46 only ) based on vanilla gnome-shell theme: it use nord theme colors schema for background and, mainly, less rounded borders and less padding.
• Provide also a python script to set an accent color (from 24 preset or from external palette file with a list of HEX colors) to gnome-shell and gtk3-gtk4 themes
• It's a dark only gnome-shell theme.

Disclaimer:

• The python script may not work properly on your system! (tested on archlinux system with gnome v46.1)

Requirements:

• python 3.11 / 3.12
• ADW-GTK3 theme https://github.com/lassekongo83/adw-gtk3 for a better gtk3/4 theme ;-)
• gnome-tweaks utility to change gnome-shell theme
• users-theme extensions for gnome (should be part of default gnome installation)

Basic notes:

• use a true-color gnome terminal (gnome-console, gnome-terminal) for best experience.
• if missing, python script create colors.css file in folder /home/users/.config/gtk-4.0 with following lines to set default gnome accent colors:
  • @define-color accent_color #3584e4
  • @define-color accent_bg_color #478fe6

Some other info:

• the script use dbus-send command to reload shell theme "on-the-fly". This can be achivied only if gnome is in unsafe-mode. unsafe mode can be enabled/disabled using this extensions: https://github.com/linushdot/unsafe-mode-menu
• if the extension is not installed or running while the script is running, after any color change you must use gnome-tweaks to reload MyAdwaita-Colors theme.

How to use it:

1. git clone MyAdwaita-Colors repo: # git clone https://github.com/dasnoopy/MyAdwaita-Colors
2. create (if not exist) folder /home/your_account/.local/share/themes and copy MyAdwaita-Colors folder into it
3. create or modify the file /home/your_account/.config/gtk-4.0/gtk.css and /home/your_account/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css , adding at beginningof these files following line:

• @import 'colors.css';
• it will import some colors definition from file colors.css that will be create by the script itself always into /home/your_account/.config/gtk-4.0/ folder.
• make a symbolic link with: ln -s /home/your_account/.config/gtk-4.0/color.css /home/your_account/.config/gtk-3.0/color.css for gtk3 apps

4. using gnome-tweaks, choose MyAdwaita-Colors as shell and legacy applications theme...
5. run the gnome_colors.py script from folder /home/user/.local/share/themes/MyAdwaita-Colors/src (see below for a description of all script options)
6. choose a color schema between 24 preset (or load from an external file containing a list of HEX colors using the -f option )
7. (run gnome-tweaks to reload the shell theme if unsafe-mode extension is not installed/running)
8. Enjoy new colors!

script options:

usage: gnome-colors.py [-h] [-c] [-i] [-t] [-f LOAD_COLORS]

MyAdwaita-Colors: a python script to set gnome-shell v46 accent color

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -c, --check           check if there are duplicates HEX colors into the color list provided
  -i, --info            show list of all accent colors with extra info like RGB and HLS values
  -t, --test            show some HEX colors to test true-color terminal capability.
  -f LOAD_COLORS, --file LOAD_COLORS
                        load accent colors from an external text file that contains a list of HEX colors

Other useful extension related to colors:

• https://github.com/tuberry/color-picker (gnome-extension to pick color)

TODO: