Bug 524468 – x11-libs/gtk+-3.12.2 - /etc/gtk-3.0/settings.ini refers to non-existent Adwaita theme

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Łukasz Stelmach 2014-10-04 19:45:24 UTC]

The default /etc/gtk-3.0/settings.ini file from gtk+ 3.12.2 refers to Adwita theme which is not installed on my system. Either gtk+ ebuild should depend on the package that provides the theme or, if the theme is provided by some large package that is a part of gnome settings.ini should point to a different theme.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Rafał Mużyło 2014-10-05 01:16:01 UTC]

This bug has effectively OBSOLETE status.

First of all, in 3.12 Adwaita was a part of gnome-themes-standard, which was pretty much assumed by upstream to be installed.

However, in 3.14 that whole theme was merged into gtk+ source tree.

[Comment 2 Pacho Ramos 2014-10-05 08:56:55 UTC]

It's also INVALID, setting it there will cause it to be used *if present*, if not, it will use another fallback (that was finally dropped in 3.14). It's more related to add another fallback before going directly with the ugly "default" theme

[Comment 3 Łukasz Stelmach 2014-10-05 09:49:32 UTC]

(In reply to Pacho Ramos from comment #2)
> It's also INVALID, setting it there will cause it to be used *if present*,
> if not, it will use another fallback (that was finally dropped in 3.14).
> It's more related to add another fallback before going directly with the
> ugly "default" theme

It depends on the distribution policy and I am no expert in this terms at all. However, I am not sure it is a good idea to provide a configuration that may cause the look-n-feel change in the future when a user decides to install additional software.

[Comment 4 Pacho Ramos 2014-10-05 10:41:56 UTC]

The look&feel will be as ugly as when there is no default set there, the difference is that it will use the Adwaita theme for people that have it installed