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johnraff

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Re: A couple of last-minute app substitutions for Carbon

^Do you use it on X11 as well as Wayland?

Anyway, I'll give it as good a workout as I can on my Trixie X11 VM and see if I can trigger any problems...

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Re: A couple of last-minute app substitutions for Carbon

I’ve used it mostly on X11 but am using currently on hyprland.

johnraff

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Re: A couple of last-minute app substitutions for Carbon

^OK thanks, that's encouraging.

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Re: A couple of last-minute app substitutions for Carbon

Does anyone else have opinions on switching lxappearance to nwg-look for carbon?

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Re: A couple of last-minute app substitutions for Carbon

+1 for nwg-look. I like it and have tested in X11.

If a user happens to dislike it lxappearance isn't far away via apt.

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Re: A couple of last-minute app substitutions for Carbon

+1 for nwg-look. I like it and have tested in X11.

If a user happens to dislike it lxappearance isn't far away via apt.

That's a plus that this tool works in both X11 and Wayland sessions as lxappearance just works in X11 and crashes if run  under Wayland.

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johnraff

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Re: A couple of last-minute app substitutions for Carbon

Looking good.
I just wanted to be sure there were no reports of mysterious glitches on X11...

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Re: A couple of last-minute app substitutions for Carbon

A go from me. Tired of seeing that useless colors tab.

I haven't tested it (full wayland here), does the "prefer color dark/light" thing switch gsettings on xorg? I'm betting it does.

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Re: A couple of last-minute app substitutions for Carbon

^yes it does. As long as xdg-desktop-portal-gtk is installed.

My only small gripe with nwg-look so far is that the "Apply" button doesn't get greyed out when there's nothing to apply - makes it hard to see whether the change you made has been applied or not. Not a blocking issue though IMO.

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Re: A couple of last-minute app substitutions for Carbon

My only small gripe with nwg-look so far is that the "Apply" button doesn't get greyed out when there's nothing to apply - makes it hard to see whether the change you made has been applied or not. Not a blocking issue though IMO.

No, but I agree that the devil is the details, and now that you've pointed it out it will bother me as well.

Worth a bug report...

https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-look/issues/118

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Re: A couple of last-minute app substitutions for Carbon

^Does the same thing happen* on Wayland too?

*or rather, not happen

Thanks for raising the issue.

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Re: A couple of last-minute app substitutions for Carbon

xarchiver seems to run OK on Wayland without xwayland. (The other two do too though.)

I found a shortcoming with xarchiver and unicode characters. It might depend on whether it's been encoded in UTF8 or some archaic Japanese thing like Shift_JIS but I had an archive the other day whose filenames were mojibake in the view, and also after being extracted. File-roller handled it with no problem.

After all, just doing the job correctly is the most important thing, so let's stay with File-roller and just live with the GTK4 theming issues.

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Re: A couple of last-minute app substitutions for Carbon

^ Please. These minor issues can get solved post-release, and more easily when people are using it and hopefully give us feedback. I'd gladly take a few apps that look out of place to a bad workaround.

I had to look it up, great term...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojibake

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