arc-theme VS Inconsolata

You can write an issue/ask a question here. It's based on the original theme, which is not active since 2017, so I guess the packages in Linux distros are built from that fork.

The theme on this picture is Arc

arc-theme with kvantum look petty good imo.

Me just being lazy instead of looking for it myself...how does this work? For example, let's say I want to use the Arc Dark theme on F36/Gnome 42. The theme claims it includes a GTK4 variant (btw, Fedora uses this fork of the Arc theme according to the rpm spec, as the original has been unmaintained for some time). How do I tell Gnome 42 libadwaita apps to use the Dark Arc theme? If it's an export line in my .profile file, then I must have done something wrong, because that didn't work for me. What is this trickery you mention, please do tell!

If your theme is already configured for libadwaita, it should be possible to use it in place of the default Adwaita by overriding the GTK_THEME variable globally or for each application via *.desktop files. For example, to globally set Arc-Dark (from the Arc theme), add GTK_THEME=Arc-Dark to a config file in $HOME/.config/environment.d for Wayland sessions or $HOME/.xprofile for X11.

I'm using the arc-theme, however because almost every native GNOME app is being ported to libadwaita, it doesn't make really sense anymore to offer custom theme support.

I have been using arc-theme for close to 5 years and even when primary author moved on, it seems to be working well enough via jnsh fork (https://github.com/jnsh/arc-theme). Has gnome authors ever considered adopting an existing theme vs building something from scratch?

I just upgraded upgraded from 18.04 LTS to 20.04 LTS and my topbar theme is a mix of light and dark, I've been using the "arc-dark" theme. I'm not a linux expert..been using it as workstations at home for a few years... perhaps it is due the theme not being compatible anymore as I found a fork here "https://github.com/jnsh/arc-theme"

Ubuntu 20.04 GNOME Shell 3.36.9 Theme link: https://github.com/jnsh/arc-theme

Arc doesn't support GTK4 yet (Extensions app).

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He has done interesting work in font creation, font building primitives, rasterization, 2D drawing, and resistant social network graphs (which turns out to be more or less equivalent to the Old Sk00l Google Juice system).

He was recently instrumental in performing a wonderful experiment in editor building -- wonderful because of the way it failed. It was something that one would think would work, but somehow it didn't. It's always interesting when intelligent and well-informed people are wrong about something. Perhaps there was too much Design and too little boring boiler plate.

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https://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html

https://levien.com/phd/phd.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodipodi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advogato

https://raphlinus.github.io/xi/2020/06/27/xi-retrospective.h...

I ran into something really similar with the "Inconsolata" font on Ubuntu recently (same issue as here, in case you'd like to read about it). What worked for me was recompiling emacs from source, and including the --with-cairo flag for the configure script:

I like Fantasque Sans Mono, and Inconsolata, and Input (not open source).

I change the mono font to Ligconsolata (Inconsolata with ligatures), and for the colors I use Tomorrow Night Eighties.

For example, installing Inconsolata-VF creates one "Inconsolata Regular (TrueType)" entry in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts. Then I can only do @font-face { font-family: "Courier New"; src: local("Inconsolata Regular"); } Anything else like "Inconsolata Medium" won't work.

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