'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 -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
