Themes installed per user should only be used for the corresponding user. The behavior of gksu is correct.
** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: gksu => gnome-control-center ** Summary changed: - locally installed gtk themes not applied to admin apps + [Theme Manager] No installation option for system wide themes, difference is not communicated in the user interface ** Description changed: + 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. -- [Theme Manager] No installation option for system wide themes, difference is not communicated in the user interface https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/24280 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
