"ABOUT NETRONIC"

About Netronic

Some information about this package.

Netronic is a desktop theming suite for [Xfce 4.18], alongside [GTK], [Qt 5], and [Wine] applications running on top of it.

Visually, it follows the NET design, which basically features flat accents and straight, beveled borders, which we see as a middle ground between flat design and skeuomorphism. Despite being unique, it might not appeal to some people.

Its GTK themes--modified from Adwaita--removed as many animations, shadows, and workarounds or hacks as possible while retaining its selectors. The result is a frilless stylesheet that should work just as well.

Platforms

Xfce, Qt 5, and Wine.

Netronic's Xfce themes include those for its window manager and notification service.

For Qt 5, color schemes are available for the Qt 5 Configuration Tool.

For Wine, registry imports are available and may work also on Windows Classic. Alternatively, Wine staging users may try the GTK theming feature.

GTK 2 will never be supported because its theming infrastructure is different from that for GTK 3, and that it has been deprecated with the release of GTK 4. Netronic follows Xfce's transition to GTK 4, and has recently gotten basic support for it.

Variants

Dark and light colors with sizes up to XXHDPI.

Color Schemes

There are dark, light, and Win9 schemes for each theme. Light is the default in hopes to support dark mode switches by appending -dark to the dark scheme name, but that never worked reliably. The Win9 scheme produces a more classic look.

DPIs

With Xfce, changing the DPI is different from (de)magnifying web pages, as it affects only measurements relative to the font size. In other words, the CSS pixel unit (px) remains at the standard base of 96 dpi. Likewise, since the window manager themes use X PixMaps (XPMs)--a raster image format--they do not scale with higher DPIs. To compensate for these discrepancies, instead of making high-DPI variants of our GTK themes, we relate every metric to the font size.

In addition to MDPI (100%), Netronic's window manager themes are available in MHDPI (125%), HDPI (150%), XHDPI (200%), and XXHDPI (300%). There is also a double integer scaling feature in xfce4-appearance-settings under Window Scaling. Still, we hope to have DPI-aware window manager themes in the future.