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Bug 103061 - Can't select a theme if metacity isn't installed
Can't select a theme if metacity isn't installed
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 95260
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: [obsolete] theme-manager
2.1.x
Other Linux
: High major
: ---
Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
AES[BIGBADBUG]
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-01-10 20:27 UTC by Christian Marillat
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.1/2.2


Description Christian Marillat 2003-01-10 20:27:41 UTC 
Hi,

I really want to know why metacity is mandatory to select a theme ?

Window manager warning: Failed to read theme from file
/usr/share/themes/metacity-1/metacity-theme-1.xml: Failed to open file
'/usr/share/themes/metacity-1/metacity-theme-1.xml': No such file or directory

Christian
Comment 1 Christian Marillat 2003-01-10 20:28:05 UTC 
I forgot, this is the control center 2.1.6
Comment 2 Andrew Sobala 2003-01-10 22:34:48 UTC 
What were you doing to create the error?
Comment 3 Christian Marillat 2003-01-10 23:13:13 UTC 
First this bug is critical and should be fixed in 2.2

How to reproduce this bug ?

 $ LC_ALL=C /usr/bin/gnome-theme-manager

(gnome-theme-manager:10947): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme
engine in module_path: "cleanice",

(gnome-theme-manager:10948): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme
engine in module_path: "cleanice",
Window manager warning: Failed to read theme from file
/usr/share/themes/metacity-1/metacity-theme-1.xml: Failed to open file
'/usr/share/themes/metacity-1/metacity-theme-1.xml': No such file or
directory

Or click on the theme icon in  the control-center
Comment 4 Andrew Sobala 2003-01-11 14:03:19 UTC 
I agree it should be fixed in 2.2; it is not critical severity, please
leave correct bug triaging to the GNOME project.

Do you have a directory /usr/share/themes/metacity-1?
Comment 5 Christian Marillat 2003-01-11 14:12:56 UTC 
No, I don't use metacity. I'm a sawfish user.
Comment 6 Andrew Sobala 2003-02-13 18:36:54 UTC 
Presumably still a problem in 2.2.x?
Comment 7 Kjartan Maraas 2003-05-02 22:08:15 UTC 
Yes. gnome-theme-manager needs to lose it's dependency on metacity I
guess.
Comment 8 Andrew Sobala 2003-09-08 00:08:43 UTC 
*** Bug 121601 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Jonathan Blandford 2004-02-07 07:01:19 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 95260 ***