firefox default theme must follow GNOME

[Trey Earl]

Garret LaSage is working on an Industrial theme for Firefox, installable from:
http://primates.ximian.com/~glesage/stuff/firefox/

I think this theme should be considered as being the Default theme for Firefox
on Ubuntu as it fits with the overall theme much better.

[Trey Earl (lunitik)]

Failing that of course, a "Human" icons based theme would be very nice also :)

[Tom von Schwerdtner (tvon)]

It also might be worth investigating GNOME-fx (http://gnomefx.mozdev.org/).

[Thom May (thombot)]

*** Bug 10588 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Thom May (thombot)]

Going with gnomestripe for the minute, we can tweak later.

[Thom May (thombot)]

 mozilla-firefox (1.0+dfsg.1-2ubuntu4) hoary; urgency=low
 .
   * Fix alternatives priority to 85 (Ubuntu #4801)
   * Use startup notification (Ubuntu: #4984)
   * Don't set LD_ASSUME_KERNEL for old java VMs, they won't run on Ubuntu
     anyway (Ubuntu: #5636)
   * Don't blow away users profile every run (Ubuntu: #3615)
   * Download to Desktop (Ubuntu: #1358)
   * Enable gnomestripe theme

[Daniel Robitaille (robitaille)]

In Firefox, if you go in Tools --> Themes, the default theme in Hoary's Firefox
still shows up as

Firefox (default) 2.0
Gerich and Horlander

But since the switch from Winstripe to Gnomestripe as the default Firefox theme
for Hoary, this new Ubuntu's default theme is not anymore the theme originally
created by Gerich and Horlander for Mozilla's Firefox. I think the theme's
label displayed in the themes menu is now misleading and should be changed to
something more correct. (Personally I still prefer the old Firefox theme, bug
#12384 , but that's another story)

[Daniel Robitaille (robitaille)]

Reopening since Firefox doesn't use the gnomestripe theme since version
1.0.2-0ubuntu1

[Daniel Robitaille (robitaille)]

*** Bug 14825 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Daniel Robitaille (robitaille)]

*** Bug 14630 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Étienne BERSAC (bersace)]

Hey ! bug #14630 is about GDM ! not firefox !!! This is not a duplicate !!!

Regards

[David Farning (dfarning)]

Has any consensus been reached on the proper default themes for 1.0.7 and 1.5.

[Ian Jackson (ijackson)]

No. But I don't think a bug report is a good venue for this discussion.
Please, if you're really interested, start a thread on ubuntu-devel. (I will
disregard opinions posted to this bug report.)

Thanks.

[Ian Jackson (ijackson)]

If and when consensus is achieved on changing the default theme, a new bug
report should be opened.

[André Rüdiger (andreruediger-deactivatedaccount)]

I think implementing an additional theme like Garret LaSage or Frank Schoep are working on is the wrong approach since it simply introduces more inconsistency. By now ff already adopts the background colors of the currently selected gtk theme. If a new (ff-)theme is installed ff only displays the half of it (icons only). I'd support the approach of picking up the icons of the active theme (#42265) and disable theming in ff since it's already (half) broken. So if the user switches the theme in Gnome ff looks the way it was intended. I think Red Hat did some work in this direction. (See http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/rpms/firefox/devel/). One theming solution is better than one and a half.

Another solution would be, to have a default (a.k.a. system, gnome, stock, native, ...) that _fully_ adopts the gtk environment (I think ff needs patching here) but preserving the ability to switch to another theme that then would be fully adopted (icons + colors + ??). We would than have one cnetral point of theming with the ability in ff to differ from that.

Firefox must not look like a foreign substance compared to the rest of the (GNOME) desktop since it can act as a bridge for users that are switching from another OS.

Just my 2c (Sorry for bad English)