From: lakeleaf8@gmail.com
On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 3:56€€€PM Jeremy Bicha wrote:
>
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 4:22€€€PM Zeke Williams
wrote:
> > The linux mint project is hard at work with a soft fork (It derives
> > but will have 100% compatibility with libadwaita apps, enough so it's
> > just a change of header files) of libadwaita that allows theming
> > better handled.
> >
> > It's version is the same as 24.04 (1.5) and it built perfectly on trixie.
> > https://github.com/xapp-project/libadapta
> >
> > Now, could this be a drop in replacement for libadwaita? Instead of
> > using the GNOME sources, use the xapp from github sources?
>
> I don't think that's very practical. libadwaita is under heavy
> development. As long as Ubuntu intends to ship the latest GNOME, there
> are only a few days for Ubuntu to package a new libadwaita beta
> release before Ubuntu's Feature Freeze deadline. The Linux Mint
> developers are simply not set up to follow that tight of a schedule.
Linux Mint doesn't track Ubuntu non LTS releases. It's far more
manageable for them because they only need to be concerned with the
latest LTS, which is right now 24.04.
> 1.5 is inadequate. Debian 13 is Debian's latest stable release and
> already has libadwaita 1.7. Ubuntu 25.10 is in Feature Freeze and has
> 1.8 Beta.
Linux Mint actually does have a debian version, which there is a good
possibility someday they might bail from ubuntu being the base to
debian if they become dissatisfied enough to jump ship. They used to
do every bi-yearly releases like ubuntu 10-15 years ago, but these
days it's just LTS only to make it more manageable for a smaller team.
> > Or maybe
> > make a patch that diffs the mint differences from GNOME's?
>
> Possibly, but I don't think investigating this is a priority for the
> active Debian GNOME members this year.
>
> Thank you,
> Jeremy B€€cha
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