The Theme Setting still no function inside the "Setting" application

[Lawrence]

BISO: 028A
Image: 0313 hardy image
Unit: D0

The Theme Setting still no function inside the "Setting" application??

[Kyle Nitzsche (knitzsche)]

Have not implemented this feature yet.

[Kyle Nitzsche (knitzsche)]

manual theme switching pegged to beta 1.

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

assign to kyle for beta 2
need support from intel

[ToddBrandt (todd-e-brandt)]

Kyle, can this bug be closed?

[ToddBrandt (todd-e-brandt)]

ok, this bug is nearly fixed. The only thing left is that the marquee doesn't seem to propagate theme changes when the gtk_theme key is changed.

[Adrian_Hung (adrian-hung)]

Hello, I am Adrian Hung from Compal. So, Is theme setting tool GUI launched from falsh UI --> "Setting" --> "Theme" ?
Thanks.

[Adrian_Hung (adrian-hung)]

Theme setting tool is added in Beta1.5 image. After testing, there are some problems:
(a) Change theme from "Carousel" (default) to "Mobile Basic", background of some icons on status bar becomes white (Launchpad Bug# 225238)
(b) It's still the same theme for marquee when theme changes. (Launchpad Bug# 225235)
(c) Font size in "Carousel" (default) is too small (11.625) and which in "Mobile Basic" is too large (16.75). We think maybe we should stick on font size = 14 and only change feel and look for different themes.

[Adrian_Hung (adrian-hung)]

After changing theme from "Carousel" (default) to "Mobile Basic", reboot MID and then theme will change back to "Carousel", system doesn't remember the setting of last used theme.

[Adrian_Hung (adrian-hung)]

After discussion, we decide to set our font size fixed to 11.625 (as defined in default theme, Carousel). Which means that in both themes, we want to use the same font size = 11.625. Thanks a lot!

[Kyle Nitzsche (knitzsche)]

Remembering the current theme between boots could be accomplished by rewriting the following two startup files on each theme change:

/etc/X11/Xsession.d/25ume-config-common_startup
/usr/share/ume-config-common/ume-gui-start

Currently these scripts check for the existence of the "carousel" theme, and, if it is present, they set it as the default gtk and matchbox theme.

The theme switcher could rewrite them to look for the user selected theme and, if present, use it.

[Loïc Minier (lool)]

These are system files; you would need root to change them; it's best to change user files for the ume user instead. We could change the startup to look into new per-user files (e.g. ~ume/.theme), but it would be best to use some standardized technology such as GConf instead.

[Bill Filler (bfiller)]

agreed. We don't want to be rewriting those files. The current theme is already being stored in gconf so we should figure out how to use those settings.

[May Xie (may-xie)]

Todd, assign it to m11. What's the status?

[elvafu (elva-fu)]

assign to m11

[ToddBrandt (todd-e-brandt)]

OK, I found one remaining bug with this in moblin-settings-daemon. Changes to the gtk_theme and icon_theme gconf keys do trigger callbacks in moblin-settings-daemon during runtime which are then propagated to xsettings. However, when the daemon is first started, it doesn't propagate the *initial* gconf key values to xsettings. Therefore a theme change doesn't appear to survive a reboot. The problem was that I inserted code which set the screen resolution/rotation just before the xsettings code, and it returned when the gconf keys for resolution/rotation were both NULL (thus skipping the xsettings code). I've fixed this. The easiest way to verify is as follows:

The nm-applet plugin has an icon on the marquee which changes depending on the type of connection, but it also changes based on the theme. The /desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme key controls what the base icon set will be for this applet, and the two themes that I switch between to test are Human and hicolor. When you have a wired connection with the Human theme, the icon appears to be two little computer monitors representing a "network". When you have a wired connection with the hicolor theme, the icon appears as the connector at the end of an ethernet cable. You can switch back and forth to see the two icons with the following commands:

NOTE: you must be logged in as user ume: "su ume".
1) gconftool-2 --type "string" --set "/desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme" "Human"
2) gconftool-2 --type "string" --set "/desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme" "hicolor"

Now the default for the system is "hicolor", so if no xsettings are propogated at all (i.e. the icon_theme key is ignored), the nm-applet will startup with the hicolor icon. Try setting the theme to Human and rebooting. Prior to 0.62, the icon would still be hicolor, but with 0.63 it should change to Human.

[cathyli (cathy-li)]

Verified in applets 0.64, try the two commands as user ume:
1) gconftool-2 --type "string" --set "/desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme" "Human"
2) gconftool-2 --type "string" --set "/desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme" "hicolor"
network manager icon changed, if change back, need restart xsettings or else the backcolor is white.

[cathyli (cathy-li)]

Verified in QA image 20080528, theme work well inside the "Setting" applets. Close it.

[Tony Espy (awe)]

Per Bill's comments, marking as "FixReleased" ( RC1 ).