Hi Marco, On Tue, 2016-07-12 at 22:43 +0200, Marco Martin wrote: > n Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 9:16 AM, Narcis Garcia <informat...@actiu.net> > wrote: > > When you look for LXDE themes (and parts), many people recommends > > the > > use of some Gtk3 themes. > > are they actually combined in one single theme? (I guess the same > question is valid for themes of the LXDE shell) > my question is more about: are gnome-shell themes and gtk3 themes > completely disjointed entities, or one is let's say a "subset" of the > other?
GNOME Shell themes and GTK+ themes are completely separate: they use different files, different assets and even different CSS dialects, because they are different toolkits. You can mix-and-match GTK and GNOME Shell themes freely, although it might not look good. The GNOME Shell theme is responsible for the GNOME Shell UI: the top panel, the activity overview, the system modal dialogs (the translucent black ones) and the system menus at the top left. It is also responsible for the lock screen and login dialog. The GTK+ theme is responsible for GTK+ apps and their widgets. Additionally, GNOME Shell will load the GTK+ theme for server-side window decorations (window titlebar and buttons). These are applied to GTK+ 3 apps that don't use a headerbar (fancy titlebar with multiple controls) on X11, plus GTK+ 2 and Qt 4 apps on all platforms (even though GTK+ 2 and Qt 4 would use a different theme format for the inside of the window). GNOME Shell Extensions on the other hand are little pieces of executable code that get loaded by the shell to change its behavior. Extensions can do anything that code can: show buttons, dialogs, menus, notifications, take over or change global keybindings, modify the layout of the activity overview. The only limitation is the lock screen, where extensions are disabled. If an extension uses the standard controls, its appearance will depend on the shell theme loaded. If an extension ships with a custom css file, it might look ugly if a non-default theme is loaded. Hope this helps, Giovanni
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