Arc-39-theme/HACKING.md

This theme uses node-sass/libsass to process the various .scss files. Never edit any of the .css files manually.

Editing the CSS based themes in the common directory (cinnamon, gnome-shell, gtk-3.0)

• Install nvm (https://github.com/creationix/nvm)

• Close and reopen your terminal

• Run nvm i and npm i from this directory

• Install gulp with npm i -g gulp

• Edit the common/*/sass/*.scss files

• Regenerate all .css files by executing gulp from the directory containing gulpfile.js. Alternatively execute gulp --cwd from any subdirectory containing a folder called sass to regenerate the .css files within that specific subdirectory only.

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Editing the GTK 2 themes

• Go to common/gtk-2.0

• The colors and includes are defined in gtkrc, gtkrc-dark and gtkrc-darker for each theme variant

• main.rc contains the major part of the theme

• panel.rc contains the panel styling for XFCE and Mate

• apps.rc contains some application specific rules

Because this theme is heavily based on the pixmap engine, a lot of the styling comes from the images in the assets and assets-dark folders. Don't edit these images directly. See the next section.

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Editing the images for the GTK 2 and GTK 3 themes

• Go to the common/gtk-2.0 or common/gtk-3.0/$gtk-version directory

• Open the assets.svg or assets-dark.svg file in inkscape. Each object in the .svg file corresponds to an image in the assets or assets-dark folder

• Find the object you want to edit and make your changes. Important: Don't change the obejct id!

• Save assets.svg and delete the images corresponding to the edited .svg objects from the assets folder (or just delete everything in the assets folder)

• Run ./render-assets.sh or ./render-dark-assets.sh from a terminal