New themes doesn't appear on the themes list

[Victor Mello]

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

When i import a new theme the thumb doesn't appears in the list, but if use a ls on ~/.themes/
$ ls ~/.themes/
gnome-theme-124582607.gtp Lithium McNarfSquare

the themes are there.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Oct 15 12:35:24 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-appearance-properties
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gnome-control-center 1:2.28.0-0ubuntu4
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=pt_BR.UTF-8
 LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.47-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

 * Is this reproducible?
 * If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

 This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

 * Is this reproducible?
 * If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?
 * Could you give a theme example?

 This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[Victor Mello (victormmello)]

I download this 3 themes:
http://sand-and-mercury.deviantart.com/art/Lithium-GTK-Metacity-Emerald-139569207
http://narf41.deviantart.com/art/McNarf-137647648
http://bababoss.deviantart.com/art/Karmic-X-138386197

Unzip and drag the .tar.gz into the themes window, a message aking if i want to use the theme now or not appear, in yes case the theme is applied in no case nothing happens, but in this 2 cases(y/n) theme thumb(the img preview) don't appear on the list, still only the Ubuntu themes.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[fabtagon (fabtagon)]

Same issue for Ubuntu 10.10.

Additionally, misleading bug messages arise when trying to install a theme that has already been installed, but does not show up on the list.

When using the theme installer (invocated e.g. from Firefox after downloading a theme file from gnome.org): "this file does not seem to be a valid theme file" (even though it obviously is, as it was "successfully" installed earlier and worked when set into immediate effect instead of opting to have it added to the list, what fails without warnig).

When using gnome-appeareance-settings the following message gets shown: "Installation for theme '4DWM' failed." - "Can't move directory over directory". Still, while it might benefit the techy user, this does not help Joe Random.

I've opened a bug in Gnome BTS as well: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=635960

[fabtagon (fabtagon)]

As gnome-control-center doesn't exist anymore in Gnome 3, the bug has been marked won't-fix in Gnome's BTS.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

That configuration dialog is deprecated in GNOME3 and Oneiric so closing the bug, feel free to open new bugs about other issues you might find though