Winstripe theme for Firefox unavailable

[Joseph Fannin]

Now that the gnomefx theme is the default in Ubuntu's Firefox, it's not possible
to install the Winstripe theme; I can go to the Mozilla web site and install any
other theme (including the gnomefx'es) but Winstripe is not available there.

If the theme used is important enough to change the default, then the inability
to use the most common of themes with the Ubuntu package is surely a bug.

Would it be possible to install both themes, and leave gnomefx as the default,
but allow Winstripe to be chosen from the theme selector?

[Kjetil Wikestad (wikestad)]

I don't think gnomefx is the new theme. It seems like the Firefox theme changes
with the desktop theme. I'm using Milk 2.0 controls and was astonished to see
that Firefox was set to have the same Milk theme.
And I was about to write a long rant about it in the forum when I saw that the
theme changes when I changed controls in Ubuntu.

I'm not entirely sure if that is a good idea or not. From a usability
perspective is best if all apps have the same controls, but Firefox don't use
the default controls. It uses a Firefox theme with the same name. And Firefox is
the only app using those customized controls.

The availability of the Wintstripe theme is a case for mozilla.org and not
Ubuntu. They should provide it on their update.mozilla.org website.

[Joseph Fannin (jfannin)]

I'm not talking about the Moz widgets tracking the gtk theme, but the changed
icons -- looking at bug #8887, it seems it's the Gnomestripe theme. It seems to
be using the same icons Galeon uses.

I think these icons are awful; the default icons used in GNOME have gotten a lot
better over the last year or so and these aren't it. :-) Also, the larger
close button on the tab bar makes the tab bar take up more screen space.

I don't expect that anyone should agree with me that they suck; that's what the
themes are for. But now it's all but impossible for me to get Winstripe. I
could ask the someone at the Mozilla Org to make a Winstripe theme package
available, but what should I tell them when they ask why Mozilla should maintain
a separate Winstripe theme package because Ubuntu mucked up the default?

This isn't even a feature being removed for simplicity, IMHO; a feature (the
ability to use *any* of the available Firefox themes) has just been broken.

[Daniel Robitaille (robitaille)]

Just want to add my opinion that personally I prefer the Firefox's default
Winstripe theme over the Ubuntu's Firefox default gnomestripe theme. It would
be nice to at least have both of them available and let the users the freedom of
choosing either of them. Especially in this case since it seems Winstripe is
not available anywhere as a standalone installable theme.

[Thom May (thombot)]

*** Bug 14184 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Juan Jose Amor Iglesias (jjamor)]

My 0.02 euro cents ;)

gnome-fx has Gnome 2.4 look, not Gnome 2.8 or 2.10.

I have two suggestions:

1) Use default Winstripe theme or other better (such as Qute 3).

2) (for Ubuntu look&feel designers :-) Create a new "Human" theme, according
with Gnome 2.10 and Ubuntu Look&Feel.

[Thom May (thombot)]

Firefox no longer uses gnomestripe.