Arc-theme: Suggestion: make a version with a white left panel

[9Morello]

I really like this theme. However, I think it would be nice to have a version with a white left panel in the File Managers. It looks good (I've edited a variant of Arc theme for myself) and doesn't seem to complicated to ship a version with it.

Thanks for this amazing theme!

[horst3180]

Yea, it would be easy to do since the sidebar style is modular, but I'm trying to keep the amount of variants to a minimum. This theme already supports multiple DE's and GTK versions, adding more stuff on top of that would make things a headache to maintain.

[thesagarsutar]

hey @horst3180 thanks for the very beautiful and useful theme. I totally agree with you that you want to keep variants to minimum. I want to set the custom color to nautilus sidebar. I tried to tweak the Arc theme manually (light theme, not Arc-dark and darker). But I was not able find the proper locations in CSS to edit custom color. Can you tell the css classes, files that I need to edit.

[9Morello]

Unfortunately, I cannot help you. I lost my edited theme due to bad backups. I don't remember what I edited to make the left panel white.

[thesagarsutar]

Thanks @9Morello. Well, I was able to do it, It is very bad editing though, I have directly edited gtk.css from /usr/share/themes/Arc/gtk-3.0/ which I think is bad practice. Anyway, the sidebar is looking like this now,

My System details - ubuntu-gnome-desktop gnome 3.20 with nautilus file manager

I have not tested this code fully, I edit it whenever I find bugs

Thanks @horst3180

[9Morello]

@thesagarsutar Could you check if the colors are still normal on the gtk file picker? I remember having problems with it.

[thesagarsutar]

Yeah, there was problem, but i found out those classes for filechooser, modified them and it works fine

[USBA]

Please give me the style-class of the gtk.css to change the left panel to white.

[capstan1]

I would like to know how to change it to light, too. :)

[capstan1]

Me too! :)

[ppoffice]

Here's two key colors to make your sidebar bright:

https://github.com/horst3180/arc-theme/blob/c58544cf6bbc4b138d4a91e14c824778e227f047/common/gtk-3.0/3.20/sass/_transparent_widgets.scss#L25

https://github.com/horst3180/arc-theme/blob/c58544cf6bbc4b138d4a91e14c824778e227f047/common/gtk-3.0/3.20/sass/_transparent_widgets.scss#L29