You have been subscribed to a public bug: themes which are installed to ~/ don't apply to applications such as synaptic, which makes these applications revert to a very ugly theme.
** Affects: Ubuntu Importance: Wishlist Assignee: Ubuntu Desktop Bugs Status: Confirmed -- locally installed themes don't apply to admin apps https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/114193 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs