Change the look of Adwaita, with ease

Gradience is a tool for customizing Libadwaita applications and the adw-gtk3 theme.

Warning Gradience, stopthemingmy.app and Adwaita Developers

The main features of Gradience include the following:

• 🎨️ Changing any color of Adwaita theme
• 🖼️ Applying Material 3 color scheme from wallpaper
• 🎁️ Usage of other users presets
• ⚙️ Changing advanced options with CSS
• 🧩️ Extending functionality using plugins

Note You can go to Preferences and apply overrides for Flatpak

Note You can press on the menu button in the headerbar and press Reset Applied Color Scheme

Warning The main installation method is Flatpak from Flathub

Gradience is available on COPR. You can install it using the following command:

dnf copr enable lyessaadi/gradience
dnf install gradience

Warning Not available yet.

Gradience is available on AUR:

Using Paru:

paru -S gradience

For latest changes:

paru -S gradience-git

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/gradience.git
cd gradience
makepkg -sic

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/gradience-git.git
cd gradience-git
makepkg -sic

GNOME Builder is the environment used for developing this application. It can use Flatpak manifests to create a consistent building and running environment cross-distro. Thus, it is highly recommended you use it.

1. Download GNOME Builder.
2. In Builder, click the "Clone Repository" button at the bottom, using https://github.com/GradienceTeam/Gradience.git as the URL.
3. Click the build button at the top once the project is loaded.

The following packages are required to build Gradience:

• Python 3 python
• PyGObject python-gobject
• Blueprint blueprint-compiler
• GTK 4 gtk4
• Libadwaita (>= 1.2.alpha) libadwaita
• Libsoup 3 (>= 3.2.0) libsoup
• Meson meson
• Ninja ninja-build

Required Python libraries:

pip install -r requirements.txt

git clone https://github.com/GradienceTeam/Gradience.git
cd Gradience
meson builddir --prefix=/usr/local
sudo ninja -C builddir install

git clone https://github.com/GradienceTeam/Gradience.git
cd Gradience
meson builddir
meson configure builddir -Dprefix="$(pwd)/builddir"
ninja -C builddir install
ninja -C builddir run

Note During testing and developement, as a convenience, you can use the local.sh script to quickly rebuild local builds.

Fork this repository, then create a push request when you're done adding features or fixing bugs.

You can help Gradience translate into your native language. If you found any typos or think you can improve a translation, you can use the Weblate platform.

Gradience was originally named Adwaita Manager.

You can see the meaning of Gradience on Wiktionary.

The icon represents: A Paint Roller repainting an Adwaita window, keeping it's functionality.

Gradience Team is not against stopthemingmy.app and Adwaita Developers idea, Gradience is a tool for tinkers that want to theme their desktops at their liking, and not a tool for distributions to change theme in them by default, Gradience Team agrees with importance of unified look of Adwaita to make sure that all apps work right and Developers have unified and stable tool for creating their apps.

Special thanks to:

• Original author of Gradience, Artyom Fomin for creating this project
• Weblate for providing translation platform

This README is based on README from Kooha by Dave Patrick Caberto