Double clic on .gtp (GNOME Theme Package) files should install them

[Luca Ferretti]

GNOME Control Centrer provides a new MIME type (from 2.18, if I'm right) for theme packages. This MIME type is called application/x-gnome-theme-package and it matches to a simple .tar.gz file with the extension changed to .gtp. The XML definition for new MIME is installed as /usr/share/mime/packages/gnome-theme-package.xml

Now, in a proper installation of gnome-control-center (at least in my GNOME upstream installation under /opt/ using jhbuild), double clicking on a .gtp file should install its content in $HOME/.themes and $HOME/.icons, and should open the Appearance capplet allowing you to select the newly installed theme.

On Gutsy, when I double click on .gtp theme, it's opened in File Roller, reporting an error on unknown/unmanaged file type

It seems that both /usr/share/mime/packages/gnome-theme-package.xml (the MIME type definition) and /usr/share/applications/gnome-theme-installer.desktop (the MIME<->application association) are propertly installed, so I've no idea (maybe not updated stuff on upgrade from Feisty?)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=486811

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The bug has been fixed upstream now

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

gnome-control-center (1:2.21.2-0ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    about-me:
    - Add another string to the list of recognized error returns from passwd
    - Don't get confused when the user does not have a password set and passwd
      immediately asks for the new one
    appearance:
    - Fix build without libXcursor
    - Be more careful when reading background information from GConf and
      make sure we don't choke on NULL values later on
    keyboard:
    - Fix warnings and don't use deprecated signal API from GTK
    - Move layout options to separate popup
    - Rename first tab to "General"
    - Replace text entry and "Choose.." button for keyboard model with a
      single chooser button
    - Don't include keyboard model description in Glade file
    localization:
    - Added (very basic skeleton of) localization capplet
    shell:
    - Remove reference to non-existing background.desktop
    settings daemon:
    - Make composited media popup window sizes scale with the screen size
    common:
    - Remove more redundant info from the theme changed callback
    updated translations
    appearance:
    - Unify "invalid theme" error messages and be a bit more verbose
    - Reword the "theme engine" error message
    - Add support for dragging images from the background list
    - Make theme sorting case insensitive
    - Fix crash if we fail to convert a filename to UTF-8
    - Use NoDisplay=true instead of OnlyShowIn=; (LP: #152453)
    - Return a new theme instead of munging whatever got passed in
    - Take cursor size into account when comparing themes
    - Watch cursor theme/size GConf keys for changes
    - Move cursor size widget initialization to Glade, to allow the slider to
      be updated properly on startup
    - Make the cursor themes delete button works
    - If the parent directory is empty after deleting a theme, delete the
      parent directory too
    - Update cursor size GConf value when the theme changes
    - Reduce number of XCURSOR ifdefs and get rid of the special treatment for
      the default cursor theme
    - Add support for live cursor theme updates
    - Read gettext macro that accidentally got stripped
    - Prevent lots of thumbs from being created with the color scheme of the
      currently active theme
    - Actually remove theme data from the hash when the theme gets deleted
    - Fix the cursor size only being updated if the cursor theme changed too
    - Watch /usr/share/cursors/xorg-x11 for cursor themes
    - Teach the installer to recognize cursor themes and icon themes with
      cursors
    - Check whether there are multiple themes to install up front
    at-properties:
    - Don't use 'Preferences' word for application name
    default applications:
    - Make the accelerators for the A11Y tools page unique
    - Replace mail and multimedia icon names with Tangoified versions
    - Use standard xdg autostart directory instead of GNOME one
    - Replace obsolete 'orca -m' command with new 'orca -e magnifier'
    display:
    - Code cleanup and fix a few leaks
    - fix string capitalization
    fontilus:
    - Drop "GNOME" from the menu item name as recommended...