GNOME themes not handled correctly when choosing icon set

[Milan Bouchet-Valat]

Binary package hint: openoffice.org

In Feisty, there's a new icon set for OO.o, "Human". OO.o chooses the adequate icon set automatically to fit to the current theme. This works for most of the themes, including Human default theme.

But some don't work. For example, choose "IndustrialTango" theme while OO.o is closed, when start it: OO.o uses "Crystal" icon set, which really doesn't fit with Tango. This is also true with "Silicon" theme.

But there's a real mess here. Just try to change your theme while OO.o is running: switch between "SphereCrystal" and "Silicon", for example: you get other icon sets than before with the same theme. Then, if you restart OO.o, it will go back to the previous (but still not fitting) theme.

I'm not able to provide an exhaustive list of the problems: looks like there's a complex mess, maybe some theme doesn't allow OO.o to guess which icon set to use. Anyway, this is quite ugly with some.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

confirming. you may want to modify the ooo-build/patches/src680/{human,tango}* patches.

[Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan)]

Thanks. But I think this is not only wishlist, but a real bug, according to the changelog:

2007-03-29 Petr Mladek <email address hidden>

        * patches/src680/tango-icons-default-linux.diff,
          patches/src680/tango-icons-default-w32.diff,
          patches/src680/apply: detects the icon theme in GNOME and KDE; sets
          the default icon theme in OOo accordingly; the total fallback
          is Tango in GNOME and Win32, Crystal in KDE, and Default elsewhere
        * patches/src680/tango-icons-default-gnome.diff: bin obsolete

The current fallback is not Tango (which I understand here as "Human" for OO.o) but Crystal, though I'm on GNOME. This is paradoxal! Or maybe the themes are wrong.

There is still a second buggy behavior, since OO.o changes its theme when restarting, although it already changed it once while running.

[Sergio Zanchetta (primes2h)]

It seems the same bug as #106186.
That bug is really annoying because I get no icons at all on Openoffice when I select Tango Icon set on Desktop.

[Sergio Zanchetta (primes2h)]

I agree with Milan. this bug (and obviously the other one #106186) shouldn't be just wishlist (or low) Importance.
It's annoying, especially for new people that are approaching Ubuntu.