Synaptic didn't "stop recognizing Appearance settings". Synaptic has been ported from GTK+ 2 to GTK+ 3. Get some themes that support both GTK+ 2 and 3. Moreover, you'll need to get themes that are compatible with GTK+ 3.8 because it's the version that's currently in Testing.
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