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 (from अद्वैत, meaning "one and only" in Sanskrit) (c. 1750 – 22 March 2006), also spelled Adwaitya [1] [2] or Addwaita, [3] was a male Aldabra giant tortoise that lived in the Alipore Zoological Gardens of Kolkata, India.

2016年6月22日 · Today, Jakub Steiner from the GNOME design team is going to talk about Adwaita, the default theme for GTK+; the tools that the designers can use to style GTK+; and how the toolkit changed to allow a better design workflow.

Adwaita offers application developers many widgets and objects to build GNOME applications scaling from desktop workstations to mobile phones. Building blocks for modern adaptive GNOME applications.

2022年3月19日 · Unfortunately, Libadwaita has been met by immense backlash by some GNOME users. This all stems from one key change in Libadwaita: The inability to theme it. This is because the Adwaita theme is built right into Libadwaita, meaning that it would need to be recompiled every time the theme was changed.

2025年3月17日 · The configured Inter was originally named GNOME UI Font, but due to the introduction of the monospace font and our design system being called Adwaita, we moved the fonts under its umbrella as Adwaita Fonts.

Private UI icon set for GNOME core apps. If you're a core GNOME application maintainer (Files and gnome-shell, really) and you have an icon need that bridges multiple components or apps, feel free to file a request in the issue tracker. If you're an application developer, file a request against the Icon Development Kit instead.

The visual style used for UI in GNOME is called Adwaita. It includes light and dark style options, which apply to all UI components, as well as a range of style options for individual widgets. The GNOME platform provides the ability for apps to have either a light or a dark UI style.

2020年1月10日 · Adwaita, which means ‘one and only’ in Bengali, was a giant Aldabra tortoise, and had been Clive’s pet in the 18th century. Reports suggest that Adwaita was given to Clive by British seafarers who captured it from Seychelles.

2025年1月31日 · GNOME changed its UI and monospace fonts this week, in a long anticipated change that is planned for GNOME 48. The new fonts are called Adwaita Sans and Adwaita Mono. Adwaita Sans is a modified version of Inter, and replaces Cantarell as the UI font.