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

Fri Nov 25 15:16:02 CET 2011

+On 2011.11.25, at 13:26, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+
+> '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.
+
+I detected a message in .xsession-errors about searching themw "Clearlooks"
+or something like that, greppped in my home for it and found in 
+.config/dconf/user.
+
+I removed .config/dconf, and theme is back to normal (apart from loosing a
+lot of prefs), but now I can not set the focus to "sloppy" in tweak tool.
+More precisely, I can set it but is ignored...
+
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