On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM Jeremy Bicha <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. Linux Mint doesn't track Ubuntu non LTS releases. It's far more manageable for them because they only need to be concerned with the latest LTS, which is right now 24.04.
> 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. Linux Mint actually does have a debian version, which there is a good possibility someday they might bail from ubuntu being the base to debian if they become dissatisfied enough to jump ship. They used to do every bi-yearly releases like ubuntu 10-15 years ago, but these days it's just LTS only to make it more manageable for a smaller team. > > 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
