Comment 12 for bug 734563

Maybe the eventual solution could be posted under 'Answers' so there's a
how-to for people who face this problem.

I haven't had the time to experiment with this myself, unfortunately. I'll
probably get to it tomorrow and I'll post any (new) findings here.

On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 3:02 PM, MacRules <email address hidden> wrote:

> indeed.
> I seem to have fixed it (partially) by doing:
> sudo apt-get remove gnome-accessibility-themes
> and then
> sudo apt-get install gnome-themes-standard
> Then install gnome-tweak-tool and set the theme to Adwaita and reboot.
>
> I do feel things look a bit crummy, but maybe that is because of
> removing some ubuntu themes as well.
>
> If anyone knows how to fix this like it should, please let us know :)
>
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> Title:
> [gnome3] Upgrading to Gnome3 PPA breaks Ubuntu theme defaults
>
> Status in “gsettings-desktop-schemas” package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: gsettings-desktop-schemas
>
> Installing the Gnome 3 Team PPA on Natty and upgrading breaks the
> default theming used by Ubuntu Classic & the new Unity desktop
> environments by setting the icon-theme to gnome and the gtk-theme to
> Adwaita. And because gnome-control-center currently doesn't have an
> applet to change the theme, it is difficult for users to figure out
> how to get things back to normal.
>
> It looks like Gnome 3 ignores the previous gconf interface settings
> and only reads the dconf ones.
>
> For Ubuntu, the dconf default org.gnome.interface.icon-theme should be
> ubuntu-mono-dark and org.gnome.interface.gtk-theme should be Ambiance.
>
> I believe Ubuntu sets the default gconf themes in the ubuntu-artwork
> package so I don't know if this should be fixed there.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
> Package: gsettings-desktop-schemas 0.1.7-2ubuntu2
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-6.34-generic 2.6.38-rc7
> Uname: Linux 2.6.38-6-generic x86_64
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Sun Mar 13 19:23:40 2011
> Dependencies:
>
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64
> (20101007)
> ProcEnviron:
> LANGUAGE=en_US:en
> PATH=(custom, user)
> LANG=en_GB.utf8
> LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: gsettings-desktop-schemas
> UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-01-01 (71 days ago)
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