The Pop GTK theme is a new theme put out by the folks at System76.
Open Source: Yes, GPL-2.0
Why it should be included: System76 wants to put a polished theme together for its users. Therefore it will be a good-looking theme that will always be in active development. As always it is nice to have more theming options within the official repo. It is a fork of Adapta, so a yml file should look very similar.
Rejected, doesn't pass our 2-distro rule. https://solus-project.com/articles/packaging/package-inclusion-policy/en/
Hello everybody. I am not sure if this counts as a valid change for the 2-distro rule, but now that the pop!_os is announced, will it be enough for the theme to be included ? Thanks!
@unTanana No. And it's just a fork of Adapta with color changes, there really isn't any value-add here. And seeing as there has been a multitude of changes upcoming in Budgie, Pop GTK Theme wouldn't display correctly and almost certainly lead to a negative experience for users of our most popular (and primary) edition, which can't be said for Adapta..
Copying @ikey 's comment from T4034:
System76 hasn't clarified whether they determine this a branding asset or not. Given this is the flagship theme for their new distro
I'd like clarification on that position before it was considered for inclusion into the repository. i.e. I don't want to get 5 months down
the line and have someone sending me emails because their open source theme was exclusive for something else.Disclaimer: No, I have idea how that works, if its actually supportable, and I've had this in the past for a Numix based theme. Would like to continue covering my ass.
@JoshStrobl with the loss of Adapta maintainership, would it be possible to consider this for packaging again? As far as Ikey's comment, could I just open an issue on their github to see if its possible to repackage it for Solus? The AUR currently has it packaged.
I have opened a dialog here regarding the branding issue: https://www.reddit.com/r/pop_os/comments/bao3e7/possibility_of_including_the_popgtktheme_in_solus/
This isn't going into the repo. Our response from clear back in 2017 and they don't have Budgie support.