GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 693350
User themes do not load correctly from expected locations in the home directory.
Last modified: 2013-05-01 13:51:45 UTC
When I try to install a user theme to ~/.themes the theme components appear selectable in gnome-tweak-tool but the mutter / metacity theme does not load correctly. When I try to install a user theme into the ~/.local/share/themes/ directory the shell theme appears in the gnome-tweak-tool but the other components do not. For some reason creating a symbolic link from ~/.local/share/themes to ~/.themes, or alternately putting the user theme in both directories solves the issue. All components are available in gnome-tweak-tool and can be loaded. I'm using Gnome 3.6.2 in Fedora 18 I'm not sure if this is a gnome-session issue or something else. See also https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=903628
Are we talking about metacity (window decoration) themes here? gnome-shell (panel/overview) themes? Gtk (window control) themes?
Thanks for replying. The ~/.themes issue is just the window manager, not the shell theme. The ~/.local//share/themes issue is everything else.
mutter should probably be changed to use ~/.local/share/themes not ~/.themes mccann (and others) have made a concerted effort to minimize the number of dot dirs in the user's home directory
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=675316 The change was made.
So I'd say this is actually an issue of gnome-tweak-tool displaying themes from an invalid location, reassigning.
Ok, so I should stop looking in ~.themes. Next time please CC me on such changes. At least I don't have to care about metacity anymore
This problem has been fixed in the development version. The fix will be available in the next major software release. Thank you for your bug report. Does gtk still look in ~/.themes/ ?