Thanks for sharing! I both love and hate the direction GNOME/GTK is going. On the one hand it becomes harder to customize and i don't agree with some technical decisions, on the other hand it makes for a very practical integrated platform. I only wish we could have the best of both worlds :)
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One of the things that libadwaita brings to the table that could have never been done without it in GNOME is accent color customization (that isn't going to make it into 42, but maybe in 43 or 44), just like elementaryOS does with Pantheon; and the app itself can be recolored in many ways with some of the new features (like it already does with Metadata Cleaner). It's not a lot of customization in the hands of the users, but it brings loads of possibilites for the app developers themselves and guarantees that their apps won't look broken due to some poorly implemented theme like it used to do with GTK3.
Couldn't this always be done by the developer using their own CSS via GtkCssProvider?
Helping to standardise a global dark mode preference is nice
No dark mode! Only black mode!
(He says from his custom network of websites universally carrying a black and red theme)
I thought this was 0ver software??
nope, it just wasn't considered stable enough for a "major" release IIRC
Woohoo!
This is very exciting!