plank VS arc-theme

For the dock, I use Plank and assign it as a startup application

Hello, backend dev here. I want to build some very specific gui stuff for linux desktop and i am confused. Let me first tell you what I want to build. Then I will explain my confusion. So I want to build something like https://github.com/ricotz/plank and https://github.com/xfce-mirror/xfce4-panel. It is not supposed to be cross platform, specifically for linux x86 64 bit. For Xorg specifically.

So I am thinking about some sort of application, that does it and is fullscreen and borderless by default. Both these apps cannot be seperate windows.

I think OP is using Plank Dock at the right side and Clear Sans as UI font. The icon pack theme seems to be Papirus. I couldn't guess the GTK theme tho

Plank is what I use for GTK

Resources of code that ought to work? https://github.com/ricotz/plank/tree/wip/indicator-style https://github.com/tatou-tatou/dotfiles/blob/master/Sources/plank-indicator.patch

Dock: Plank

Maybe something like Plank dock. It sounds like it will do what you describe with the pinned launch icons that are grouped together. It also has optional "docklets" for standard panel functions (application menu, show desktop, clock, trash, battery, clipboard, cpu monitor) so it can replace a traditional panel. It should be in most popular distro repos.

Plank is a nice dock that works well with XFCE.

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.

I have enjoyed the dark variant of the Arc Theme for years. It can be found in most distro repositories or here: https://github.com/horst3180/arc-theme

Arc dark. https://github.com/horst3180/arc-theme

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!

Here's a popular GTK and icon theme that go well with each other: https://github.com/horst3180/arc-theme https://github.com/horst3180/arc-icon-theme

Did you try the arc-dark theme? It's quite popular among archlinux users, and I think it looks pretty polished. [1]

I'm no design expert, so I got nothing to say in terms of UI/UX. But it's the theme I've grown most comfortable with to use over the years. I agree with your sentiment that most themes lack attention to detail, where everything looks just more cluttered than anything else (especially when taking a look at icons, fonts etc).

[1] https://github.com/horst3180/arc-theme

Arc uses SASS to generate the actual CSS. It uses constants for colors which should be easy to replace. The only thing you need then is to build the SCSS files with a SASS compiler. Look at this file for example: https://github.com/horst3180/arc-theme/blob/master/common/gtk-3.0/3.20/sass/_colors.scss

Theme: Arc darkest (Dark mode) Arc Github

https://github.com/horst3180/arc-theme slims things down a little bit.

Theme: Arc-Dark