This rant is part of a <a href="../gtk4r">series.</a>

<h1> Replacing the theme </h1>
<p>
Gtk used to have its own theme engine, because users wanted to have
dark or light background, large font, etc. Somewhere during gtk3
they switched from this theme engine to css. This first sounds like
a good idea: css is a well specified language and is widely used on
the web. However, it has many shortcomings.
<p>
The next few rants will cover different aspects of how CSS made everything
much more complicated and how it introduced conceptual errors that can
not be fixed:
	<ul>
		<li> <a href="../gtk4r_css_gizmo"> scrollbar gizmo </a>
		<li> <a href="../gtk4r_css_vtext"> vertical/truncated labels </a>
		<li> <a href="../gtk4r_css_custom"> design error: custom widgets </a>
		<li> <a href="../gtk4r_css_labelc"> named colors </a>
	</ul>