On 6 July 2011 07:44, dE . <de.tec...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi. > > Ever since Gnome shell came out, my problems have been amplifying. Current > problem are the themes, it happens that in Debian testing, the Gnome 2.x > applications are being replaced by 3.x which's based on GTK3. As a result > the 2.x themes don't apply on them. The 2.x themes are used by the few > remaining 2.x apps + panels + metacity. > > Thus the desktop looks pretty ugly with these apps. I've seen Gnome 3 themes > (with metacity themes + gtk 2.x + 3.x themes)... but they are very less in > number and not available in the repositories. They also don't get installed > with the existing theme manager. > > Next, I know as gnome 2.x becomes deprecated, gnome 3 apps will be pushed > into tree, leaving gnome panels and metacity looking ugly.
gnome-panel is using GTK+3 You can help to port metacity yo gtk+3, see [1] and [2] > I know gnome 2 panel applets are not backwards compatible with gnome 3 > panels, but does gnome panels 3 even have applets? gnome-applets [3] were ported to gtk3 too. [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572332 [2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=612491 [3] http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-applets/ -- Javier Jardón Cabezas _______________________________________________ gnome-themes-list mailing list gnome-themes-list@gnome.org To unsubscribe (and more): http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-themes-list