Actually, if you read through the comments of #500417 the scenario when nautilus doesn't honor the theme is just one special scenario of that defect and in the comments it is expanded that randomly either the whole desktop or just the nautilus doesn't honor the theme.
I am on Dell Precision 5500 (dual xeon, 4 core each, no ssd, dual nvidia quatro with proprietary driver) on 10.10 and I am experiencing the same problem as you have described "entire gnome desktop reverts to the default theme on boot, except the theme selector window". The #68 doesn't fixes it and #70 fixes it except the icons on the desktop in nautilus and which remains still from the old theme. >From the user perspective the behavior for these two defects is exactly the same. You have narrowed it down to one hardware configuration where it always occurs and one workaround which for this hardware configuration always fixes it, but in my opinion/experience the problem affects more than just this one hardware configuration and since it is most likely a race condition or timing issue of some sort, the success rate of the workaround is just a pure luck and coincidence rather than a fix. The underlying issue for both of these defects is exactly same. Something happens between gnome-systems-settings and nautilus which causes the entire desktop to revert to the default theme. Changing timing of the start or restarting gnome-settings-daemon seems to fix some effects of this problem but not necessarily all of them. Even if these defects are not duplicates they are at least related since the underlying issue for both of them is the same. -- Meerkat (10.10) does not apply theme properly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/649809 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
