bluebird-gtk-theme 1.3-1 window borders incompatible with Cinnamon >= 3.8 and don't appear in the theme application menu

[Connor Kuehl]

[Impact]

The Cinnamon package shipped in the Ubuntu 19.04 repositories is >= Cinnamon 3.8. This version of Cinnamon only supports window border themes which are metacity-3 compliant [1].

The Bluebird theme's upstream git repository has already been updated with metacity-3 compliance [2] but this change has not made its way into the Ubuntu package.

This means that while the package is installable, the theme will not be selectable in Cinnamon's Theme application for selecting window borders (it won't even appear as an option).

[Test Case]

Install `bluebird-gtk-theme`, open the "Themes" application and click on "Window Borders"

Expected result: Bluebird window borders appear as an option, may be selected, and the window borders activate.

Actual result: Bluebird window borders are absent from the window borders selection menu.

[Regression Potential]

This doesn't modify any of the rest of the theme, but only installs metacity-3 support. In using the theme I haven't experienced any oddities.

[1] https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3557 Change log entry: "Titlebar themes are now restricted to metacity-3"

[2] https://github.com/shimmerproject/Bluebird/commit/12af472e008100153429c88eff8cd3d546b017e9

[Connor Kuehl (connork)]

Attaching .debdiff for Disco to this comment.

[Connor Kuehl (connork)]

Attaching .debdiff for Disco to this comment (it's identical, the changelog release is different though).

[Connor Kuehl (connork)]

Sorry, comment #2 should read "Attaching .debdiff for Eoan to this comment"

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package bluebird-gtk-theme - 1.3-1ubuntu1

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bluebird-gtk-theme (1.3-1ubuntu1) groovy; urgency=medium

  [ Connor Kuehl ]
  * Add metacity-3 support for Cinnamon 3.8 compatibility (LP: #1836975)

 -- Balint Reczey <email address hidden> Thu, 21 May 2020 12:27:08 +0200

[Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)]

Hi Connor! Apologies for the delay in reviewing your patch.

Although Disco is EOL, I uploaded the patch to Eoan. I changed the version number to 1.3-1ubuntu0.20.04.1, since 1.3-1ubuntu1 was already uploaded to Groovy. Although this is something I don't particularly like to nitpick on, please try to follow DEP-3 for patch headers in the future. It makes it much more readable (by humans and machines). More documentation is available here: https://dep-team.pages.debian.net/deps/dep3/

I have unsubscribed ~ubuntu-sponsors, since there is nothing left to do. Feel free to resubscribe us if further tweaks to the patch are required before acceptance.

Thank you for your contribution!

[Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)]

Correction, it's been uploaded to Focal, which is actually the LTS release.

Everything else still applies, thanks.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The fix for this bug has been awaiting testing feedback in the -proposed repository for focal for more than 90 days. Please test this fix and update the bug appropriately with the results. In the event that the fix for this bug is still not verified 15 days from now, the package will be removed from the -proposed repository.

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

The version of bluebird-gtk-theme in the proposed pocket of Focal that was purported to fix this bug report has been removed because the bugs that were to be fixed by the upload were not verified in a timely (105 days) fashion.