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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Proposal to change default gtk3 theme back to upstream choice</H1>
<B>Colin Guthrie</B>
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<I>Fri Nov 25 15:16:40 CET 2011</I>
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<PRE>'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 25/11/11 12:26 did gyre and gimble:
><i> 'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 25/11/11 12:19 did gyre and gimble:
</I>>><i> 'Twas brillig, and Anne nicolas at 25/11/11 10:54 did gyre and gimble:
</I>>>><i> Le 25/11/2011 10:10, Colin Guthrie a écrit :
</I>>>>><i> 'Twas brillig, and Funda Wang at 25/11/11 02:39 did gyre and gimble:
</I>>>>>><i> Currently, we are selecting oxygen as default theme for whole distro,
</I>>>>>><i> but oxygen-gtk3 is too unstable, nor seems to be actively maintained.
</I>>>>>><i> Maybe we should change default theme for gtk3 applications, the same
</I>>>>>><i> as upstream? Especially considering we will providing gtk3 as one
</I>>>>>><i> major choice of applications in mageia 2?
</I>>>>><i>
</I>>>>><i> Yeah certainly in gnome3 this now looks really nasty now. The default
</I>>>>><i> upstream choice was much nicer.
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> Oxygen theme is intended to replace Ia_Ora one as it's a big work to
</I>>>><i> maintain our own theme. BTW it needed to be renewed. Oxygen is for now
</I>>>><i> the only one available under gtk and qt apps and gives consistancy
</I>>>><i> between both kind of apps.
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> Oxygen is actively maintained and one of the maintainers is using
</I>>>><i> Mageia. So we still have bugs inside that should be fixed soon.
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> Finally oxygen-gtk3 is now upstream so it should help a lot also for
</I>>>><i> long term maintainance
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> Perhaps it's a different issue then, but Gnome-Shell today looks ugly
</I>>><i> due to the theme no longer reflecting the Adwaita theme it was using
</I>>><i> before... Ia-Ora was not used in there before and thus Gnome-Shell
</I>>><i> looked fine.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> I'm all for dropping Ia-Ora but with this side effect Gnome-Shell looks
</I>>><i> really bad. Sadly I guess the Alpha will ship like this :(
</I>><i>
</I>><i> I guess it's something different to the gtk3 theme.... Will try and work
</I>><i> out the cause.
</I>
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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