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Tutorial for making GTK3 themes

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http://forums.fedoraforum.org – GTK themes in Gnome 3 follow a new syntax that is different from GTK2. The new CSS syntax in GTK3 makes it easier to make themes. Though it is easy to understand the CSS syntax than the old gtkrc syntax, it is not enough to know just CSS. GTK themes are more than that. A good start can be this tutorial and specifically this. I will try to explain in brief what I have learnt about GTK3 theming. It might not be perfect, but I think it can do a little help. You will certainly not want to make a theme from scratch. It is a lot of work to do. Instead you should start by modifying an existing (HowTos)

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