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GNOME Shell styling changes: A PSA for theme authors

Posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Jul 26, 2023

As gnome-shell’s CSS grew more complex, designers needed something more expressive, so they started compiling the stylesheet from SASS. The sources were moved to a subproject, so they could be shared between the regular stylesheet and the GNOME Classic stylesheet.

Fast-forward to the present day, gnome-shell now includes a light variant to support the global color-scheme option.

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