Theming

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Note to Users

This documentation is meant for Gtk and Gnome Shell themers. If you encounter a bug specific to a Gtk or Gnome Shell theme, you should file a downstream bug report with the theme maintainer and direct them to this page.

GSConnect is made of two distinct parts; the Gnome Shell extension and the service daemon. There is custom CSS for some Clutter/St widgets in the Gnome Shell extension (stylesheet.css) and Gtk widgets used in the GSConnect service (application.css).

Gnome Shell

The Shell extension includes default CSS rules in stylesheet.css and is more likely the CSS you will change as a themer.

Device Menu

This description is quite out of date as of v15

The main UI widget in GSConnect is the Device Menu, used in both the User Menu and Indicator display modes, which inherits from .popup-menu-item.

Of special note is the .gsconnect-device-button which is the circular widget with device icon in the center. The child StDrawingArea will scale itself to the desktop scale factor and the width/height given (more details in stylesheet.css).

• PopupMenu.PopupBaseMenuItem.gsconnect-device (inherits from .popup-menu-item)
  • StButton.gsconnect-device-button
    • StDrawingArea
  • StBoxLayout.gsconnect-device-box
    • StBoxLayout.gsconnect-device-title
      • StLabel.gsconnect-device-name
        • StWidget.popup-separator-menu-item
        • StBoxLayout.gsconnect-device-battery
          • StLabel
          • StIcon
    • StBoxLayout.gsconnect-device-actions
      • StButton.gsconnect-device-action (inherits from .system-menu-action)
        • StIcon
    • StBoxLayout.gsconnect-device-status
      • StLabel

Tooltips

GSConnect uses custom tooltip widgets with an object hierarchy like so:

• StBin.gsconnect-tooltip
  • StBoxLayout
    • StIcon
    • StLabel

Gtk

The service includes default CSS rules in application.css, which has a few classes of interest.

• .badge-button

  Used for the Chrome and Firefox buttons in Preferences -> Other.

• .message-in

• .message-out

  Used for message bubbles in the SMS/Messaging window, which are a subclass of GtkLabel. Incoming messages are always aligned to the left side and outgoing messages to the right side, regardless of language direction.

  Message bubbles may have links in them, with color set to @theme_selected_fg_color by default to contrast with the default background of @theme_selected_bg_color (20% or 100% opacity).