The "Settings" app is missing the 'Appearance' option

[Bill Gradwohl]

In-situ upgraded V20.04LTS to V22.04.1LTS. Everything went fine.

Ubuntu Forum users report they have an Appearance option in their Settings app; I don't.

bill@bill ~$ apt show ubuntu-settings
Package: ubuntu-settings
Version: 22.04.6
Priority: optional
Section: x11
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Desktop Team <email address hidden>
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 41.0 kB
Depends: dconf-gsettings-backend | gsettings-backend, gnome-control-center-data, gsettings-desktop-schemas (>= 40), libglib2.0-bin (>= 2.53.4-3ubuntu1~)
Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop
Download-Size: 6,508 B
APT-Manual-Installed: no
APT-Sources: http://hn.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages
Description: default settings for the Ubuntu desktop
This package contains the default settings used by Ubuntu.

I wanted to move the DOCK from BOTTOM to LEFT and found no way to do that through Settings.

I found what looks like the proper key/value pair in dconf Editor and changed 'BOTTOM' to 'LEFT', rebooted and it didn't change anything. I double checked in dconf Editor after the reboot and it says 'LEFT' but the dock is still at the bottom.

BTW - this is my second attempt at trying to report this bug but chrome locked up the first time after I picked a .png as an attachment, so I'm not going to attach an image of my Settings app showing The 'About' along side the list of available options with Appearance missing from the list.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: ubuntu-settings 22.04.6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-46.49-generic 5.15.39
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-46-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.1
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Thu Aug 25 07:33:19 2022
InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-07-21 (399 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200731)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: ubuntu-settings
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2022-08-21 (3 days ago)

[Bill Gradwohl (0cs935-bill)]

I tried to attach an image to this report AFTER the report was already accepted and chrome locked up immediately after I selected a file. That's the second lock up when selecting a file.

[Bill Gradwohl (0cs935-bill)]

I tried to use ubuntu-bug to report the lock up of chrome during the ubuntu-bug reporting process but ubuntu-bug won't allow a report on ubuntu-bug itself.

bill@bill ~$ ubuntu-bug ubuntu-bug
dpkg-query: no packages found matching ubuntu-bug

FYI - When I attempted to report the bug this page is about the first time, the ubuntu-bug output on the terminal showed the following if that's any help:
bill@bill ~$ ubuntu-bug ubuntu-settings
bill@bill ~$ [75943:75943:0825/071203.322589:ERROR:gpu_memory_buffer_support_x11.cc(44)] dri3 extension not supported.
Opening in existing browser session.

You guys should use ubuntu-bug to report something and attempt to add an attachment as I did and you might see the chrome lock up yourselves.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. According to your report you use a GNOME upstream session

 CurrentDesktop: GNOME

The Appearance option is an Ubuntu customization and such only available on Ubuntu sessions