Selecting a theme fails to change the theme

[Mike Doherty]

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

When selecting themes in gnome-appearance-properties, the selected theme is not applied correctly. In particular, only the window decorations/borders and the cursor are changed. The controls and colours for the gnome-appearance-properties window is changed, but not for other windows. The gnome-panels are not changed, and the icon theme in use is unaffected. This occurs whether compiz or metacity is in use.

This appears to be a regression from Lucid; I upgraded yesterday.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: gnome-control-center 1:2.32.0-0ubuntu2 [modified: usr/bin/gnome-about-me usr/bin/gnome-appearance-properties usr/bin/gnome-at-properties usr/bin/gnome-control-center usr/bin/gnome-default-applications-properties usr/bin/gnome-display-properties usr/bin/gnome-font-viewer usr/bin/gnome-keybinding-properties usr/bin/gnome-keyboard-properties usr/bin/gnome-mouse-properties usr/bin/gnome-network-properties usr/bin/gnome-thumbnail-font usr/bin/gnome-typing-monitor usr/bin/gnome-window-properties usr/sbin/gnome-display-properties-install-systemwide]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-24.42-generic 2.6.35.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Jan 16 20:04:47 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-appearance-properties
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_CA.utf8
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center

[Mike Doherty (doherty)]

As you can see here, the selected theme "Darklooks" is applied only to the gnome-appearance-properties window, and nothing else.

[Mike Doherty (doherty)]

As you can see here, the selected icon theme is not applied to the nautilus window.

[Mike Doherty (doherty)]

This does work when logged in as another user.

[Mike Doherty (doherty)]

I blew away ~/.gconf - this allowed themes to apply normally, and I started my customizations from scratch. I still consider this a bug because there was no indication when running gnome-appearance-propterties in a terminal that there was any error. Providing such information would have provided critical information for a less-drastic resolution.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Do you still get the issue? Without detail on what configuration was leading to the bug it's not easy to debug

[Mike Doherty (doherty)]

No, I resolved this with rm -rf ~/.gconf, then reinstating my customizations. In retrospect, I probably should have checked that file/directory permissions were appropriate before doing that. Nevertheless, I consider this a bug for the reason stated above: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/703743/comments/5

[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

[Mike Doherty (doherty)]

Thank you, but this is not a bug against GNOME3 or Oneiric, so I'll set it back to confirmed.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

well the bug doesn't apply to the current ubuntu version which is what launchpad is tracking so closing it again, if you want a fix on a stable serie you need to use "target to series" and pick the serie which has the issue but the issue is small enough that it doesn't really qualify for a stable update