Unity Greeter - Dialogs in unity-greeter are not using Unity shutdown dialogues

[Frederik Elwert]

In the unity lightdm greeter, the default GTK theme is used. Thus, dialogs like the shutdown dialog do not match Ubuntu’s default theme (Ambiance). This affects the visible coherence and beauty of the login screen.

Desired Solution:
- Unity Greeter should use the same shutdown dialogues as targeted for Precise, see section 1.1.2 in https://docs.google.com/a/canonical.com/document/d/1ILTJDiDCd25Npt2AmgzF8aOnZZECxTfM0hvsbWT2BxA/edit?hl=en_GB for full details

[eZFlow (breakdevize)]

final release is just a few days away and bugs like this are still in.. amazing.

[Joschi Poschi (joschiposchi)]

Can't quite understand why this isn't fixed yet, it looks really ugly compared to the unity-greeter's design.

[Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb)]

It is just not fixed yet. If you want to spped this up, contribute a patch!

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

seems to be a race or something since it doesn't happen to all configurations (i.e it happens on my netbook but not on my laptop config there)

[Lilian A. Moraru (lilianmoraru)]

Fitoschido, oh how I like this kind of response... Most of us here are just simple users which care for the project enough to hassle to take some time to report the bug and have no programming skills and that's the response that they receive?

[Fritz Heinrichmeyer (fritz-heinrichmeyer)]

i see this behavior still on a system with kde installed, but not on another "pure gnome" box. I use default config files.

[Fritz Heinrichmeyer (fritz-heinrichmeyer)]

WORKAROUND:
configure gtk3 in the home directory of lightdm user

/var/lib/lightdm/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini

with following text:

[Settings]
gtk-theme-name = Ambiance
gtk-icon-theme-name=ubuntu-mono-dark
gtk-fallback-icon-theme=ubuntu-mono-dark

so somehow the lightdm user environment seems not configured properly. If this the reason, on my box without this annoyance there should be a more complete set of config files. I can look for it on monday.

[Satchit Bhogle (satchitb)]

Fritz Heinrichmeyer, the file mentioned in your workaround does not exist.

[Andrew Heil (heilandrew)]

Create the directory and file and add the contents to it that Fritz Heinrichmeyer suggests. It works.

[Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb)]

Dialogs now use Ambiance style. https://plus.google.com/u/0/100530892038948253747/posts/K2gKqCWCe6M

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

Fixed in trunk:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~unity-greeter-team/unity-greeter/trunk/revision/1013

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity-greeter - 14.04.0-0ubuntu1

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unity-greeter (14.04.0-0ubuntu1) trusty; urgency=low

  * New upstream release:
    - Use Unity style shutdown dialogs (LP: #857577)
    - Handle hardware power button in greeter (LP: #903306)
    - Use an Upstart process to start indicator services (LP: #1185565)
    - Fix build with Vala 0.22
    - Clean up compile warnings
 -- Robert Ancell <email address hidden> Mon, 11 Nov 2013 17:16:17 +1300