Bug 268496 – gnome-base/gdm should default to Clearlooks over "none" if possible

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Pacho Ramos 2009-05-03 19:00:14 UTC]

Currently, gdm is defaulting to "Default" gtktheme but, under Gentoo, there is no "Default" under /usr/share/themes.

I suggest default to "Clearlooks" as it's gnome default theme with this trivial diff applied to current ebuild:
--- /usr/portage/gnome-base/gdm/gdm-2.20.10-r1.ebuild	2009-05-01 12:28:07.000000000 +0200
+++ /usr/local/portage/gnome-base/gdm/gdm-2.20.10-r1.ebuild	2009-05-03 20:48:32.000000000 +0200
@@ -175,6 +175,9 @@
 	# Fix old X11R6 paths
 	dosed "s:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/bin:" /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf
 
+	# Use Clearlooks as default
+	dosed "s:#GtkTheme=Default:GtkTheme=Clearlooks:" /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf
+
 	# Move Gentoo theme in
 	if use branding ; then
 		mv "${WORKDIR}"/gentoo-*  "${D}/usr/share/gdm/themes"

After this, people with gtk-engines installed (most gnome users) will get default GDM with this nice theme ;-) and, people without it, will simply get current "none" behavior, then, this doesn't add any RDEPEND on gtk-engines

Thanks a lot :-)

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2009-05-17 18:48:08 UTC]

Isn't Default the embedded gtk+ theme ?

[Comment 2 Pacho Ramos 2009-05-17 21:02:34 UTC]

I don't know what do you exactly mean by "embedded" gtk+ theme sorry but with default "circles" gdm theme without touching config I get no gtk+ theme at all

[Comment 3 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2009-05-17 21:40:27 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I don't know what do you exactly mean by "embedded" gtk+ theme sorry but with
> default "circles" gdm theme without touching config I get no gtk+ theme at all

the embedded gtk+ theme is the ugly one that looks worse than windows 95, that's what I refer to the Default theme.

[Comment 4 Pacho Ramos 2009-05-18 06:22:36 UTC]

Then, I think that we are referring to the same :-)

[Comment 5 Daniel Gryniewicz (RETIRED) 2009-05-26 14:46:33 UTC]

I vote ++ on this.  The default theme is horribly ugly, and there's no good way to change it right now (since you have to change settings for the gdm user)

[Comment 6 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2009-05-26 15:05:11 UTC]

ok then, it cannot do much harm anyway :)

[Comment 7 Pacho Ramos 2009-05-26 20:03:27 UTC]

Thanks! :-)

[Comment 8 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2009-06-17 23:07:58 UTC]

in 2.20.10-r1 without a bump.

[Comment 9 Pacho Ramos 2009-06-18 11:59:23 UTC]

Thanks