gnome-appearance-properties not installing themes correctly

[Alex Engelmann]

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

I'm on Ubuntu 11.04 64bit, and am having difficulties installing new themes from GNOME-Look.org, where they would not install succesfully as full themes, but only as components (Window Border, etc). I decided to run the program in a terminal and see if there was any relevant output. The attached file shows all the output.

[Alex Engelmann (alex-engelmann)]

I've been able to reproduce the bug on my laptop, also Ubuntu 11.04 64bit. So to sum it up more clearly:

I'm using 1:2.32.1-0ubuntu15 (gnome-control-center)

What I expected to happen: Installing themes by dragging and dropping the theme into appearance manager themes, says "installed successfully" and then works no problem.

What actually happened: When I install a particular theme by dragging and dropping, I get the terminal output posted above. With other themes, though the GUI reports having "installed successfully", they are not installed successfully, but I don't get that terminal output.

How to reproduce it: Even just launching gnome-appearance-properties will give the above output, no matter which theme is selected (even default Ambiance theme). However, deleting one particular theme from my home/.themes directory seems to make it go away. Deleting that theme manually within appearance manager doesn't actually remove it from that directory, so the output still occurs.

I'm starting to think these are 2 possibly unrelated bugs: one with a particular theme, and one with appearance manager. I would greatly appreciate input from someone more knowledgeable :)

[Alex Engelmann (alex-engelmann)]

I've also posted this bug at:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=651746

[Alex Engelmann (alex-engelmann)]

I've resolved it. It appears to a bug that is particular to Adwaita and all themes derived from it, and I've already contacted some of the theme developers.

[Alex Engelmann (alex-engelmann)]

After reformatting and reinstalling Ubuntu, I still receive the terminal output, so it is in fact a bug in Gnome.

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

Since you have already sent this issue to upstream tracker I have marked as triaged for now. Thanks

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the appaearance capplet is deprecated in GNOME3, closing the bug