The matcha-gtk-theme package repository still doesn’t contain the year-old fixes

[rizuhaso]

Hello.

The update from a year ago broke the appearance of Xfce icons and Thunar.
This issue is described here:

How to return the previous behaviour of desktop icons selection

Can anyone help me? What should I add into “/home/user/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css” to return the previous behavior of desktop icons selection. With xfce 4.20 there appeared a white background on mouse hover. [Снимок экрана_2025-02-05_14-01-51.png] I would like to make it transparent again. P.S. Why manjaro team has stopped to maintain the consistency of the manjaro UI theme? I remember, that icon (hide windows) should also be in #2eb398 color ) [Снимок экрана_2025-02-05_14-02-29.png]

and here:
Xfce 4.20 issues · Issue #238 · vinceliuice/Matcha-gtk-theme · GitHub .

On GitHub, this issue was closed on 28 Apr 2025, and the source files contain the fixes. However, the github maintainers have not yet updated the release of the package (the latest release was 11 Apr 2025).

As I understand it, the Manjaro repositories take updates from the released packages, not directly from the github source. That’s why the fixes are not in the repositories.

Of course, I can update the theme myself from github. But is there a way to fix this at the distribution level?"

[Teo]

Are you sure there is something to fix? Because such things are heavily theme-dependent. Which matcha theme are you using? Because on matcha-dark-sea for example everything works.

[rizuhaso]

@Teo

Are you sure there is something to fix?

Of course!
This is how the hovered desktop icons and unfocused thunar looks now:

And this is how it must be looking and how it looks after manual installation from the github source (./install.sh):

Theme Matcha-sea (and corrected one after github version installation):

pacman -Qi matcha-gtk-theme

Название : matcha-gtk-theme
Версия : 20250411-2
Описание : A flat design theme for GTK 3, GTK 2 and GNOME Shell
Архитектура : any
URL : VINCE — VinceLiuice Themes
Лицензии : GPL-3.0-or-later
Группы : Нет
Предоставляет : Нет
Зависит от : Нет
Доп. зависимости : Нет
Требуется : manjaro-xfce-settings
Опционально для : Нет
Конфликтует с : Нет
Заменяет : Нет
Установленный размер : 27,85 MiB
Сборщик : Mark Wagie mark@manjaro.org
Дата сборки : Вт 28 окт 2025 20:38:48
Дата установки : Ср 10 дек 2025 00:00:17
Причина установки : Явно установлен
Установочный скрипт : Yes
Проверен : Подпись

Actually, this bug appears at all matcha themes (azul, sea, dark, light, etc, no matter). Look at the commit Fixed #238 · vinceliuice/Matcha-gtk-theme@1e33c6e · GitHub . It fixes all theme variants.

[Teo]

Then let’s ping @Yochanan on this. It looks more of a problem for the light themes because of the white text on white background but i guess making the text greyish is the universal solution.

[rizuhaso]

@Teo

but i guess making the text greyish is the universal solution.

What? Everything already have been fixed in the github source files. But the maintainers did not update the zipped and tarred release versions, and consequently the package have not been updated in the manjaro repository.

You dont need to do anything “more greyish”.

@Teo

Because on matcha-dark-sea for example everything works.

Your screenshots looks buggy as well:
The text background of hovered icons in matcha-dark-sea also must be transparent, not grey.
In the github source files their appearance is set by https://github.com/vinceliuice/Matcha-gtk-theme/commit/1e33c6e48764d70dfa05db5711ce5b816dc6b80d#diff-7f848d2face0673b381f07fb1e2a41ff501fc8e575ab1556fc54f46116e6eb4f:~:text=%2B-,XfdesktopIconView.view,} :

XfdesktopIconView.view, XfdesktopIconView.view:hover {
  background-color: transparent;
  color: #ffffff;
}

[Yochanan]

@rizuhaso

Fixed #238 · vinceliuice/Matcha-gtk-theme@1e33c6e · GitHub

I’ve cherry picked that commit as well as 878f344 with matcha-gtk-theme 20250411-3 coming along shortly.

[rizuhaso]

@Yochanan

I’ve cherry picked that commit as well as 878f344 with match-gtk-theme 20250411-3 coming along shortly.

Today an update arrived, and the theme view has finally been restored. Thank you!