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The Azurra Framework is a handy tool for creating and managing GTK themes.

Author: Elbullazul

Current version: 0.1-alpha

Dependencies

• sassc, or any other up-to-date SCSS parser
• bash 4 or higher, required for the autogen script
• python 3.6 or higher, for utils.py
• imagemagick, for asset rendering
• optipng, for PNG compression

Getting started

Included files: Azurra: Source theme you can use to create your own derivative. Find more base themes on the b00merang Azurra repository

example: This is a plain theme that mirrors the Azurra base theme. You can start by editing this empty example by adding/editing the colors and then importing the widgets you want to customize.

autogen.sh: This script runs the SASS compiler on the target theme and deploys the rendered file to the target specified in theme.conf. Run ./autogen.sh --help for more details.

In the example theme, you can find the following folders:

• assets: This folder will be copied to the target directory once deployed. Place image and other resources here.

• widgets: You can copy a widget file from Azurra/widgets here and edit the SASS code to change the ruleset for that particular widget. You have to manually update the import line in _imports.scss to point to widgets/<WIDGET> instead.

And the following files:

• _colors.scss: The colors used in the rendering process. Edit them and start a generation to see changes.

• _colors_public.scss: This defines system color names that GNOME uses to render some applications. Modifications to this file are discouraged.

• _common.scss: This is where the theme structure is defined. It stores global settings and some rules about spacing and rarely used widgets. Modifications to this file are discouraged.

• _functions.scss: Contains functions to edit colors with GTK's CSS functions. Modifications to this file are discouraged.

• imports.scss: Points the SASS interpreter as to which files to read. If a file is placed in /widgets but the widget reference is not updated, it will not be included.

• _vars.scss: Contains variables reused in multiple widget source files.

• gtk.scss: The file that gets generated to gtk.css. Manages imports and sets various variables for conditional rules

• gtk.css: The CSS stylesheet that GNOME will read. You should run ./autogen.sh example after any changes you have done before using it.

• theme.conf: Contains a theme's name, author and target directory. Dynamic versioning is coming in a future release.

More documentation and a tutorial are available on the wiki