installed GTK themes are not completely deleted in gnome-appearance-properties

[Bernhard]

Say I install a new GTK theme and remove it afterwards by clicking "delete" in "gnome-appearance-properties", "Theme" tab. Then there is still the whole data of the theme in ~/.themes. I don't think that this is intended, or is it? The thing is that I also had problems at times when I wanted to reinstall the whole theme again: then the old directory clashed with the new one (they had the same name).

[Bernhard (b.a.koenig)]

Also reported on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=562371

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

thanks for sent it to GNOME.

[Stephan7 (sshsteph007)]

Just wanted to comment I also experienced this: install theme, delete, re-install and error message:
"Can't move directory over directory"

So to re-install I had to delete it myself, but as I did not know where the themes were stored I had to search it first
and finally found them in my home-directory under .themes.
So not that even if a name clashed, it would be nice if the error message include the full path directory name.

As a workaround: deleting the corresponding sub-directory lets me re-install the theme again.

[David Tombs (dgtombs)]

Per <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=562371#c10> this appears to be committed. The linked bug, on the other hand, does not really match this issue.

When I get a chance, I'll try to patch and confirm fixed myself.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

That configuration dialog is deprecated in GNOME3 and Oneiric so closing the bug, feel free to open new bugs about other issues you might find though