folder view buttons don't blend in with nautilus window

[broken_reel]

The buttons to select your folder view mode have rounded corners. While this is visually appealing, the excess white pixels that are displayed past the rounded corners are not. I'm not sure if this is a theme problem or a GTK problem, but it is rather distracting once noticed and takes away from an otherwise excellent theme.

[ammonkey (am-monkeyd)]

Some themes doesn't have a problem with this button, like ambiance, radiance, clearlooks, dust .... and others got some white pixel around. So it's definitely a gtk theming problem.

You can use the mini view switcher which sit in the statusbar as an alternative (edit/preferences/tweak menu).

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

It's half and half. Part the fault of the theme and part the fault of the widget.

What's happening is that when the widget is drawn it's taking the background color of the window instead of using the background color of a button. This produces an undesirable effect and is quite inconsistent with the way the the rest of the theme shows buttons. In this way, it's the fault of the widget. It should be using the same color as the rest of the buttons in the theme. But, then again I don't know if this is technically possibly to do.

Now, as a work around, in the theme there is custom widget matching that tells the mode-button to use the same background color as a normal button. This is how the button should appear, ie the same as other buttons in the theme. However, the problem is that the widget does not distinguish between the background of the button and the background of the surface that the button is sitting upon. So it changes that surface background color as well. That is what the little dots you see in the corner are about.

So, it's partially the fault of the widget for not drawing correctly, and partially the fault of the theme for trying to work around that fact.