Re: GTK2 Themes in GNOME 3

[Michael Ikey Doherty <michael i doherty intel com>]

On Sat, 2014-02-15 at 14:11 +0200, alex diavatis wrote:
> > Haven't confirmed this myself, but what if you symlink ~/.themes/ to
> > ~/.local/share/themes ? Then anything installed in
> ~/.local/share/themes
> > would also be accessible from ~/.themes/
>
>
> That is a bad workaround. 
>
>
> 1. Tweak will still dublicating themes (Stowers?) 
> 2. GNOME-Shell User Extension uses ~./themes for Shell Themes. I know
> that Shell Themes aren't officially supported from GNOME but..
> (Giovanni?)
Then the solution would be to have all themes in just one place in the
home directory (including gnome-shell themes) and read from one
location, i.e. XDG directory. So if the user-themes extensions used the
XDG location, then have gnome-tweak-tool just use that directory.

Just my 2¢.

- Ikey

> This is not complaining or something, but I think is a
> really unnecessary bug (in gtk2), which I haven't the skills to fix it
> my self.
>
>
> Thank you
>
>
> - alex
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Michael Ikey Doherty
> <michael i doherty intel com> wrote:
>         On Sat, 2014-02-15 at 11:29 +0200, alex diavatis wrote:
>         > Hello,
>         >
>         >
>         > GNOME 3 GTK3 theme specifications point that themes
>         (user-specific)
>         > should be installed under ~/.local/share/themes.
>         > That won't work for GTK2, and GTK2 themes are required to be
>         installed
>         > in ~/.themes
>         >
>         >
>         > This is a known bug in bugzilla.gnome (cant find #) and GTK2
>         themes
>         > should be accessible under ~/.local/share/themes also.
>         >
>         >
>         > Installing a theme (GTK2 & GTK3) both in ~./.themes and
>         > ~./local/share/themes makes Tweak Tool to show themes twice.
>         >
>         >
>         > In my opinion this is also a security regression since users
>         should
>         > use root access for installing themes (!!) under
>         ~/usr/share/themes.
>         > When "users", add several scripts and programs that install
>         themes.
>         >
>         >
>         > This bug is over a year, and I know GTK2 is not actively
>         developed,
>         > but there are still many GTK2 apps.
>         >
>         >
>         > Any solutions for installing GTK (2&3) themes under GNOME3,
>         without
>         > root privileges?
>         >
>         
>         Haven't confirmed this myself, but what if you symlink
>         ~/.themes/ to
>         ~/.local/share/themes ? Then anything installed in
>         ~/.local/share/themes
>         would also be accessible from ~/.themes/
>         
>         - Ikey Doherty
>         
>         >
>         > Thank you
>         >
>         >
>         > - alex
>         >
>         >
>         >
>         >
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