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    Sync titlebar button appearance with GTK CSD apps · 7bffadad
    Mikhail Zolotukhin authored
    Currently GTK applications with Client Side Decorations always use
    decorations from the respected GTK CSS theme. Because of CSS nature
    different themes may handle decorations in the headerbars differently,
    therefore making modifying them via user css a very hard task. However,
    what we can do is to use decoration appearance syncing in our own theme
    - Breeze GTK.
    
    Breeze GTK uses svg images for the representation of decoration
    buttons (close, minimize, maximize) appearance. So to achieve the goal
    what we do is the following:
    
    1. We ask KWin to render current decoration buttons to custom QPainters.
       For each button we must export every state (clicked, hovered, normal, inactive).
    2. QPainters then export decoration buttons to svg's.
    3. Then we save those images to assets folder in
       `~/.config/gtk-3.0/assets`
    4. Then we create custom .css for Breeze GTK, that tells the theme
       to use these saved images for decorations.
    
    All of the above is only done if the...
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