Why does pamac have so ugly font appearance?

[Wollie]

Some more background info:

Pamac not following system themes (Plasma)

With Manjaro Gnome we follow strictly what upstream Gnome developers do regarding theme with adaptive design in mind. Pamac is designed for Gnome desktop environment and Phosh for mobile use. If you don’t use Gnome, use the old GTK3 UI of Pamac. We try to backport common features to that one too.

Pamac not following system themes (Plasma)

libadwaita is the best thing happened in the Linux ecosystem. This way application developers don’t have to care about theming, as it is fixed to one thing. Sure there will be the dark mode, but this is the only thing they have to take care of and take a look. When colouring is added, adwaita isn’t as bad as everybody thinks it is. pamac was always being designed as a Gnome app and always follows the latest design concepts - period. If you don’t like it, you may want to use Octopi, which is a p…

Pamac not following system themes (Plasma)

pamac is gtk. And its the only graphical package manager manjaro suggests or supports. The nomenclature as of now is pamac-gtk and pamac-gtk3, with the second being the ‘classic’ one developed up til now. pamac-gtk is current and gtk-4 and notably libadwaita specifically. While that is probably best integrated with Gnome … its not gnome-specific. Any desktop that can handle gtk4 can handle the new pamac. It may make sense for the team to decide to include one or the other in certain editions …