Compatibility with Gnome Shell themes needs to be improved

[linuxmint]

Compatibility with Gnome Shell themes needs to be improved

[AlbertJP]

Good idea. Providing partial compatibility is better than just saying that it's not possible and this way we're also encouraging people to fix those issues and turn the theme into a Cinnamon one. Or perhaps a theme which is compatible with both Gnome 3 and Cinnamon? Would be great if that were possible.

[clefebvre]

Yes, that is possible. You can define Cinnamon styles within the gnome-shell part of the theme and this will result in a theme which will be detected as being a "Gnome Shell" theme, but which will be 100% functional in both Gnome Shell and Cinnamon.

[clefebvre]

We're changing quite a lot of things and introducing new widgets and styles with every new features so it's a little bit early for people to work on themes for Cinnamon, but eventually we'll work on making this as easy as possible.