Re: [gthumb-list] gthumb 3.3.1 : gtk(3) theme broken?

[Paolo Bacchilega <paolo bacchilega libero it>]

Il 04/03/2014 11:35, Kristian Rink ha scritto:
> Hi Paolo;
>
> and first, thanks a bunch for your response.
>
> Am 04.03.2014 11:01, schrieb Paolo Bacchilega:
> > > >
> > > >(a) The gthumb UI doesn't honour the GTK(3) theme settings anymore but
> > > >displays in a somewhat dark, unconfigurable theme.
>  >
> > This is done on purpose, all the GNOME applications that show images or
> > videos use the dark variant of the gtk theme, for example Totem or EOG
>
> Oh. Wasn't aware of this as I am using gthumb in XFCE not GNOME. Saw
> this behaviour in other applications and, to be honest, always
> considered it very very annoying - after all, what's the purpose in
> allowing users to set themes for their desktop if some applications
> decide to "know better"? In my environment, I usually have things set to
> a light theme with dark text because this is what is best readable /
> usable in day-to-day work. So far gthumb was pretty good here, yet at
> the moment it's extremely inconvenient because it's way too dark for my
> environment. :(
>
>
> > > >
> > > >(b) The menu bar, apart from the navigation / slideshow / tool buttons,
> > > >is completely transparent and always makes me see through whichever
> > > >window lies "under" the gthumb window (and be that the root window /
> > > >desktop background).
>  >
> > gThumb 3.3.1 uses the headerbar so you shouldn't see a menu bar, the
> > headerbar is not supposed to be transparent so there must be some
> > problem in Debian, try to open other gtk+ applications that use the
> > headerbar and see if the problem is present in other applications as
> > well.
>
>
> I almost exclusively use GTK applications on my desktop but I can't tell
> which one uses headerbar. From looking at things, I _suppose_ eog does
> (which also is dark but does correctly render a non-transparent header
> bar) and I think evince does too (which also has a "correct" headerbar).
> However launched from a terminal, gthumb complains that...

No, both EOG and Evince use the window manager titlebar, some 
applications that use the headerbar are Nautilus, GNOME Clocks, GNOME 
Weather, GNOME System Monitor ...

> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gthumb/extensions/libimage_rotation.so:
> undefined symbol: gth_image_viewer_page_get_type
>
>
> ... might this be relatd to that issue?

no, that could be an extension built for an older version of gThumb

- Paolo