On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM Zeke Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > The linux mint project is hard at work with a soft fork (It derives > but will have 100% compatibility with libadwaita apps, enough so it's > just a change of header files) of libadwaita that allows theming > better handled. > > It's version is the same as 24.04 (1.5) and it built perfectly on trixie. > https://github.com/xapp-project/libadapta > > Now, could this be a drop in replacement for libadwaita? Instead of > using the GNOME sources, use the xapp from github sources?
I don't think that's very practical. libadwaita is under heavy development. As long as Ubuntu intends to ship the latest GNOME, there are only a few days for Ubuntu to package a new libadwaita beta release before Ubuntu's Feature Freeze deadline. The Linux Mint developers are simply not set up to follow that tight of a schedule. 1.5 is inadequate. Debian 13 is Debian's latest stable release and already has libadwaita 1.7. Ubuntu 25.10 is in Feature Freeze and has 1.8 Beta. > Or maybe > make a patch that diffs the mint differences from GNOME's? Possibly, but I don't think investigating this is a priority for the active Debian GNOME members this year. Thank you, Jeremy Bícha
