From: jbicha@ubuntu.com 
  
 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. 
  
 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. 
  
 > 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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