Adwaita (design language)

Adwaita
Developer(s)The GNOME Project
Initial releaseApril 6, 2011; 13 years ago (2011-04-06)
Stable release
1.4.0 / September 14, 2023; 14 months ago (2023-09-14)
Repositorygitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libadwaita
Written inC, Sass
Operating systemBSD, Linux, Unix
Included withGNOME
PredecessorClearlooks
TypeDesign language software
LicenseLGPLv2.1+[1]
Websitedeveloper.gnome.org/hig

Adwaita is the design language of the GNOME desktop environment. As an implementation, it exists as the default theme and icon set of the GNOME Shell and Phosh, and as widgets for applications targeting usage in GNOME. Adwaita first appeared in 2011 with the release of GNOME 3.0 as a replacement for the design principles used in Clearlooks,[2] and with incremental modernization and refinements, continues with current version releases.

Until 2021, Adwaita's theme was included as a part of the GTK widget toolkit, but in an effort to further increase independence and divergent release schedules of GTK from that of GNOME, it has since been migrated to libadwaita, which as an overall project, serves to extend GTK's base widgets with those specifically conforming to the GNOME human interface guidelines.[3]

  1. ^ "COPYING". GNOME GitLab. 2018-02-07. Retrieved 2022-09-26.
  2. ^ Paul, Ryan (April 6, 2011). "A shiny new ornament for your Linux lawn: Ars reviews GNOME 3.0". Ars Technica. Retrieved January 2, 2022.
  3. ^ Plazas, Adrien (March 31, 2021). "Introducing Libadwaita". Retrieved January 2, 2022.