gnome-theme-manager does not apply background style

[juve]

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

I set up 2 custom gnome-themes incl. background images, which the theme-manager can apply since feisty (afaik).
But choosing either theme and appling the background-image doesn't change the style of the background (zoom,tiled,scaled,...)

to reproduce you have to set up
theme 1 with a bg-image which should be fitted to the screens width, i.e. background-style = zoom
theme 2 with another smaller bg-image which should be displayed more than once, i.e. background-style = tiled

try switching between those themes and pressing the "Apply Background"-button and you'll see that the bg-style won't change.

[Áron Sisak (asisak)]

Thanks for reporting this bug. Can you please attach / file a link to the theme affected.

[juve (awakener)]

It happens with every theme.

Again try these steps:

* choose clear looks
* change your desktop background and set style "tiled" !!!
* back to thememanager
** click on customize and change something (e.g. engine to "clearlooks") and go back
** save the theme as "Test1" and choose to save the Background

* choose clear looks again or any other
* change your desktop background to another Image and set style "zoom" !!!
* back to thememanager
** click on customize and change something (e.g. engine to "crux") and go back
** save the theme as "Test2" and choose to save the Background

Now try switching between those themes and press the Apply button for the Background.
You will see that the BG changes but not the BG-style it will stay at "zoom" if "zoom" was you last choice in the backgroundchanger.

This means the new "save BG feature" within thememanager is not fully functional. It does not handel the Desktop-Background-Style. It's not a problem of a specific theme. It's the managers fault.

[David Planella (dpm)]

I also observed the following behaviour, which is probably related to this bug, so I'll just assume this and add a comment here instead of filing a separate bug report:

On gnome-appearance-properties, changes in the background colour of the desktop's background picture seem to be ignored. The colour can be changed in the dialog, but when the session is started, only the "Ubuntu brown" colour is shown before loading the background picture, regardless of the previously chosen colour.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Could you try on gutsy and hardy if that's still an issue? How do you expect the software to know what setting to use?

[juve (awakener)]

Sorry, i won't have time for bugsearching/testing anytime soon.
-- Juve

On Feb 9, 2008 2:16 PM, Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> wrote:

> Could you try on gutsy and hardy if that's still an issue? How do you
> expect the software to know what setting to use?
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
> Status: Confirmed => Incomplete
>
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[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!.