teaser for my little winter project.

[rdbende@mastodon.social]

@hbons GTK now has support for standard CSS media queries, btw

[hbons@mastodon.social]

@rdbende I tried, but it didn’t work? maybe I did something wrong.

[rdbende@mastodon.social]

@hbons if you're using 4.20 or a newer development version, it should work just like in normal CSS: https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/css-properties.html#media-queries

[hbons@mastodon.social]

@rdbende thanks! I’ll give it another go.

[ebassi@mastodon.social]

@hbons you don't need to listen to anything; you should use CSS variables and the prefers-color-scheme: dark media query, like:

\@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
.main-window {
--sidebar-bg-color: ...;
--accent-bg-color: ...;
--accent-fg-color: ...;
}

[ebassi@mastodon.social]

@rdbende @hbons just word of advice: standalone GTK does not know anything about light/dark preferences; the plumbing is all part of libadwaita

[taye@mastodon.social]

@ebassi @hbons @media `light-dark()` is also a good method (dunno if GTK supports it)

--bg-color: light-dark(#efedea, #223a2c);

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/color_value/light-dark

[hbons@mastodon.social]

had this idea of just showing country flags instead of city names.

it's less precise, but I think a lot more engaging.

#linux #opensource #gnome #gtk #rust #design #aurora

[virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca]

@hbons Heh, will this cover North America?

If so, for Canada you might want to include provincial flags (e.g. 󠁣󠁡󠁡󠁢󠁿 for Alberta, or qualified flags like 󠁣󠁡󠁡󠁢󠁿/ for Alberta/Canada), otherwise the land area is too vast. Hell, our provinces can be rather large.

[michalfita@mastodon.social]

@hbons In some countries cities have flags. #Poland for example.

[hbons@mastodon.social]

@virtuous_sloth at some point yes.

but as I understand it's not really possible to predict West-East occurrences... just very broadly North-South. I guess it could be based on whether the sun has set.

[hbons@mastodon.social]

@michalfita once NASA can predict aurora odds that accurately I will add them.

[virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca]

@hbons You are right, they are quite broad east-west, but there is some variation. Looking at this one, if you know what parts are heavily populated, some of the most populated parts of the country in the south of the east, including around 20 million people, are not in the zone while there are less-populated parts in the south of the west which are in the zone that nevertheless inclued almost 10 million people. A challenge to be sure.

[virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca]

@hbons I wish you good progress with your cool development!

[pino@social.cologne]

@hbons How hard and backward would it be to just have good old letters there. Or, like the younger ones say: Legacy emoji... LOL

[hbons@mastodon.social]

@pino

[pino@social.cologne]

@hbons 🥌 ️

[hbons@mastodon.social]

want to appreciate for a minute that #gtk can now baseline align labels regardless of size or style.

won't need to change the margins when playing with the font sizes later.

[hbons@mastodon.social]

all this might be old news to you, I'm just rediscovering all the "new" features.

[rangelovd@mastodon.ml]

@hbons I know you mean well but flags instead of city names and flags instead of languages can be quite controversial at times. I hate to be the lame guy in the room, but usually it's better to err on the side and to avoid these things