pocillo-gtk-theme VS arc-theme

You're not really going to ever simply forget what OS you're on, if you are going for the mac look and feel. In my opinion you should be looking at https://ubuntubudgie.org and install my http://kinto.sh app, the global menu is easy to activate in Budgie. If you also really want imessage then you can also take a look at https://airmessage.org and setup a VM on another box if you need to - but you will need to gather some genuine mac values https://github.com/myspaghetti/macos-virtualbox.

First off.. this is not an official release like my Kinto project, but you can install https://ubuntubudgie.org and use their global menu or run my script which will fully configure everyone w/ my Kinto project and other various fixes.

https://github.com/rbreaves/kairos

Ah yes. I love Manjaro, I ran it on and off for a few yearas. I had to switch distros recently because of the many sub-versions of java and package management unfortunately. So I moved to Ubuntu Budgie. https://ubuntubudgie.org/

To clarify you mean Ubuntu Budgie right?

Other guy misspelled it, so here's a link.

TIL Ubuntu Budgie is a thing.

Linux often times lack polish and to me.. it is surprising how put together it can actually feel once you have both polish and functionality combined and that is the difficult part that you will rarely see. Try out ubuntubudgie.org and configure it to look like a Mac, if you are developer that uses a mac, and I think you will be pleasantly surprised. Unlike in past years there is a distro out there that has every component you need baked in besides xfce4-terminal, which to me is better than Tilix, and simpler looking.

If you want something different then I suggest you try out ubuntubudgie.org. https://www.reddit.com/r/UsabilityPorn/comments/ltfm2m/budgie_ubuntu_budgie_clean_and_simple/

GTK Theme: Pocillo-dark-slim.

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).