gnome-shell themes not recognized by gnome-tweak-tool

[Jason M. Hall]

Description: Ubuntu precise (development branch)
Release: 12.04

gnome-tweak-tool:
  Installed: 3.2.2-3
  Candidate: 3.2.2-3
  Version table:
 *** 3.2.2-3 0
        500 http://mirrors.gigenet.com/ubuntuarchive/ precise/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Shell themes were extracted to "~/.themes/" as well as copied to "/usr/share/themes/". Extracted GTK themes seem to show up under the GTK+ theme and WIndow theme drop-downs, however gnome-shell themes fail to appear despite "User Themes Extension" being on.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: gnome-tweak-tool 3.2.2-3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-17.27-generic 3.2.6
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.94-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Mar 4 23:58:20 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-tweak-tool
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120303)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-tweak-tool
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Žygimantas Beručka (zygis)]

I second that. I'm running an up to date Precise, gnome-tweak-tool 3.2.2-3 is from Precise repos and gnome-shell-extensions-user-theme 3.2.0-2~webupd8~oneiric.

[Žygimantas Beručka (zygis)]

I just found these packages of gnome-shell-extensions-common and gnome-shell-extensions-user-theme, version 3.2.3. They solve the issue; after restarting the shell one is able to change themes again. So I imagine it's more a matter of having the right version of these packages available for Precise somewhere rather than hoping to get a fix.

Sadly the upstream on extensions.gnome.org supplies only a version compatible with the soon-to-be-released gnome-shell version 3.4, which will not reach Precise in any way but through backports.

[Žygimantas Beručka (zygis)]

Ooops! I forgot to add the link. Voila https://launchpad.net/~createsc/+archive/3beol/+build/3263471

[Jason M. Hall (jasonmhall-mail)]

Good find, my friend! That seems to have also fixed the issue for me. The shell themes drop-down displays correctly and the themes change just as they should.

Thank you.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. I apologize that we are not always to respond to bug reports promptly. Ubuntu 11.10 reached End of Life in 2013. See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

Please upgrade to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and re-test.

Do feel free to report any other bugs you may find.