Drag-and-drop theme from web page fails

[Colin Watson]

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

http://www.arsgeek.org/2008/05/31/six-annoyances-in-hardy-heron-ubuntu/ reports that it is no longer possible to drag-and-drop themes from a web page into System -> Preferences -> Appearance (Theme tab), as of Hardy.

This appears to be because theme_drag_data_received_cb does g_file_get_path on a GFile constructed on the dragged-and-dropped URI, which only returns non-NULL on local files. Something would need to arrange to actually download the theme if it isn't local.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Mark asked that this be addressed in a point release if possible.

[Michael Rooney (mrooney)]

This would be great to have. I guess the previous IO library handled HTTP and the current one does not? I can confirm that it doesn't work in Hardy, and that a dialog pops up but disappears so quickly you can't even see it. There is no traceback or message when run from the console.

By the way Colin, I really appreciate you filing bugs from that blog, I think they are important issues.

[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=545335

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the bug is used to test on http://art.gnome.org/ by picking any application theme

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the bug has been fixed upstream now

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-control-center - 1:2.23.5-0ubuntu2

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gnome-control-center (1:2.23.5-0ubuntu2) intrepid; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/90_from_svn_use_gio_for_themes_copies.patch:
    - change from svn to fix non local themes installation (lp: #252885)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:07:18 +0200

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Hardy has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the Hardy task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".