I'm out of the office until 1st August. On 6 May 2011, at 09:03, Christoph Buchner <[email protected]> wrote:
> it is now 2011, still not resolved. > for me, this bug has been triggered by this workaround around the > too dark inactive menu item text in ambiance: > http://askubuntu.com/questions/7561/how-to-change-the-color-of-menu-text > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are a member of > Papercutters, which is subscribed to One Hundred Paper Cuts. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/24280 > > Title: > applications run through gksu cannot use themes in ~/.themes > > Status in The "GKSu" Gnome Frontend for "su": > Invalid > Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts: > Invalid > Status in “gksu” package in Ubuntu: > Confirmed > > Bug description: > The user interface of the theme manager does not make clear that it > can only install themes for the current user. Furthermore it does not > provide an option to install themes system wide. This very often > leads > to bug results like this one: > > Scenario: > > A) User finds spiffy (or totally hideous) theme online and loves it. > > B) User installs theme and uses it. > > C) User selects any sudo-required admin app and is greeted with the > default GTK > theme. > > > Solutions: > > 1) Live with it and wait until GTK uses a nice default theme > (dapper + 1 if > we're lucky?). Is this even good enough? > > 2) Stick the user $HOME/.themes directories into whatever path gtk > uses to find > themes so the admin apps match the user apps no matter what awful > creation the > user might be imposing upon [him|her]self. > > 3) Be smart enough to know if a theme is not available and fallback > to the > default Human theme or something along those lines... basically > just do anything > to avoid showing it un-themed. > > 4) Create a new theme specifically for use with apps that require > sudo priv. > Use this theme at all times. Maybe make it an /etc setting > somewhere for people > that can't stand it and "must" change it for whatever reason. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/24280 Title: applications run through gksu cannot use themes in ~/.themes To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gksu/+bug/24280/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
