Re: They broke the CSS custom color settings in 3.20

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

Hi;

On Sunday, 13 November 2016, Stefan Salewski <mail ssalewski de> wrote:
> On Sun, 2016-11-13 at 15:08 +0000, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> > You can also start from the GTK+ API reference:
> >
> >   https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/chap-css-overview.html
>
> Yes, I found that already this morning. I will read it more carefully
> when I have some spare time.
>
> This morning I was looking for the exact meaning of single ampersand as
> in
>
> tooltip {
>   &.background {
>
> In that page only double ampersand is mentioned unfortunately.

Because that comes from a .scss file, which is processed with SASS to generate CSS.

SASS is a superset syntax of CSS that is commonly used in web development for complex style sheets:

http://sass-lang.com/

 

> And I have to admit that I have not bookmarked that page already --
> "Copyright © 2005‒2014 The GNOME Project" made me wonder if that info
> is valid at all for GTK >= 3.20.

The documentation is generated from the Git repository; the copyright attribution is inconsequential as to whether it's up to date.

Ciao,

 Emmanuele.

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