Adwaita (design language)
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, and with incremental modernization and refinements, continues with current version releases.
The GNOME Shell's Activities Overview with several core apps in-use | |
| Developer(s) | The GNOME Project |
|---|---|
| Initial release | April 6, 2011 |
| Stable release | 1.4.0
/ September 14, 2023 |
| Repository | gitlab |
| Written in | C, Sass |
| Operating system | BSD, Linux, Unix |
| Included with | GNOME |
| Predecessor | Clearlooks |
| Type | Design language software |
| License | LGPLv2.1+ |
| Website | developer |
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.