Platano-theme

Oro parece; Plata no es.

Note: This theme is currently a work in progress, and is not ready for general use.

Platano is a GTK theme based on Material Design principles. It's intended as a continuation of the wonderful Plata-theme by tista500.

What's in a name?

The name Platano comes from a wonderful Spanish riddle I was taught several years ago, which appears at the top of this page:

Oro parece; plata no es. ¿Que es?

Roughly translated:

It looks like gold; silver (plata) it is not. What is it?

Translating doesn't help much though, as the answer is hidden within the riddle:

plata no es

The answer? Un Plátano!

Just like the "punch line" of this short riddle states, Plata this is not. This is Platano!

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Typography

Platano strongly depends on Material Design resources, especially its fonts.

1. Roboto

• Very famous as the default truetype font in Android (English ver.).
• Multilingual support is not good.
• Weight used in Platano: 300, 400, 500, 700

	Primary	Fallback
Gnome-Shell =< 3.34	Roboto	Sans-serif
Gnome-Shell >= 3.36	follow system settings
Cinnamon	Roboto	Sans-serif

Platano is designed with nominal 13px (or 14px) Roboto Regular font. In Gnome, "window-scaling-factor = 1.0" means -gtk-dpi = 96, it also means:

13 [px] x 72 [pt/inch] / 96 [px/inch] = 9.75 [pt]
14 [px] x 72 [pt/inch] / 96 [px/inch] = 10.5 [pt]

That's the reason why 13.33px = 10pt is used for rem/px conversion in Gtk 3.2x/4.0 theming.

Note:

NotoSans CJK (ChineseJapaneseKorean) opentype fonts are actually 0.1em taller than Roboto fonts, so if 10pt Roboto was suitable on your LCDs, set 9pt for NotoSans CJK families.

Verify the fonts are rendered correctly via font-viewer tools like Gnome-Font-Viewer.

Installation

Platano is not yet ready for use. Watch this repository for release announcements!

In the meantime, if you'd like to test things, here are some basic build instructions:

1. Make sure you have the Meson build system and sassc installed.
   • Note that sassc will be replaced by a more modern sass compiler at some point in the future.
2. Open a terminal and clone the repository. Navigate into the newly cloned folder.
3. mkdir build && cd build
4. meson configure. I'd suggest looking over the options as well, and making sure everything is to your liking.
5. ninja build
6. ninja install
7. If you want to theme libadwaita apps as well, copy path/to/installed/themes/Platano<-variant>/gtk-4.0/gtk.css to ~/.config/gtk-4.0/gtk.css.
8. You should be all set up now. Enjoy!

Public License

• GPLv2.0 (Codebase)
• CC BY-SA 4.0 (Asset images)

Note:

Paper Icons by Sam Hewitt is licensed under CC-SA-4.0.

Special Thanks

• Tista500 for their work on Plata-theme
• The Buddies of Budgie folks who taught me about tools for theme development