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

Fri Nov 25 15:16:40 CET 2011

'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 25/11/11 12:26 did gyre and gimble:
+> '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.
+
+OK, so it seems that gnome-shell inherits the theme from Metacity and
+thus automatically gets Oxygenised.
+
+It can be fixed by:
+
+gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences theme 'Adwaita'
+
+
+But I think we need to re-assess how using the oxygen theme everywhere
+affects the gnome3 experience.
+
+Col
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