[Mageia-dev] Proposal to change default gtk3 theme back to upstream choice

Fri Nov 25 13:26:39 CET 2011

'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 25/11/11 12:19 did gyre and gimble:
+> 'Twas brillig, and Anne nicolas at 25/11/11 10:54 did gyre and gimble:
+>> Le 25/11/2011 10:10, Colin Guthrie a écrit :
+>>> 'Twas brillig, and Funda Wang at 25/11/11 02:39 did gyre and gimble:
+>>>> Currently, we are selecting oxygen as default theme for whole distro,
+>>>> but oxygen-gtk3 is too unstable, nor seems to be actively maintained.
+>>>> Maybe we should change default theme for gtk3 applications, the same
+>>>> as upstream? Especially considering we will providing gtk3 as one
+>>>> major choice of applications in mageia 2?
+>>>
+>>> Yeah certainly in gnome3 this now looks really nasty now. The default
+>>> upstream choice was much nicer.
+>>
+>> Oxygen theme is intended to replace Ia_Ora one as it's a big work to
+>> maintain our own theme. BTW it needed to be renewed. Oxygen is for now
+>> the only one available under gtk and qt apps and gives consistancy
+>> between both kind of apps.
+>>
+>> Oxygen is actively maintained and one of the maintainers is using
+>> Mageia. So we still have bugs inside that should be fixed soon.
+>>
+>> Finally oxygen-gtk3 is now upstream so it should help a lot also for
+>> long term maintainance
+> 
+> Perhaps it's a different issue then, but Gnome-Shell today looks ugly
+> due to the theme no longer reflecting the Adwaita theme it was using
+> before... Ia-Ora was not used in there before and thus Gnome-Shell
+> looked fine.
+> 
+> I'm all for dropping Ia-Ora but with this side effect Gnome-Shell looks
+> really bad. Sadly I guess the Alpha will ship like this :(
+
+I guess it's something different to the gtk3 theme.... Will try and work
+out the cause.
+
+Col
+
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