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Bug 586757 - Switching themes is not consistently updating opened windows
Switching themes is not consistently updating opened windows
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: empathy
Classification: Core
Component: Chat themes
2.28.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: empathy-maint
empathy-maint
: 587469 595883 613694 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-06-23 14:38 UTC by Facundo Batista
Modified: 2018-05-22 13:33 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.27/2.28


Description Facundo Batista 2009-06-23 14:38:04 UTC 
When switching to some themes, the already opened windows are updated, and with some themes it doesn't happen.

1. Select "Simple" theme in the preferences.
2. Open a chat window.
3. Select "Blue" theme in the preferences, the opened window changes its theme
4. Select "Classic" theme in the preferences, the opened window does NOT change its theme

Zdra pointed out to me in IRC that the issue is that it's changing the layout, not just the colors. 

But for the user, they're just themes, so they should behave consistently.

Thank you!!
Comment 1 Pierre-Luc Beaudoin 2009-06-23 14:49:20 UTC 
This also applies to Adium themes. To reapply a theme, we'd have to replay the conversation (so that the chat window contains the same text).
Comment 2 Xavier Claessens 2009-06-23 14:49:46 UTC 
I'm wondering if we could keep in memory a list of all received EmpathyMessage objects, so when changing the theme we can display them all again... Not sure if that's a big wast of memory.

We could also take message from stored logs, but then if we disable loggin, the window would be cleared when changing theme.
Comment 3 Xavier Claessens 2009-06-23 14:51:29 UTC 
It is about chat themes, changing the component.
Comment 4 Guillaume Desmottes 2009-08-06 11:50:23 UTC 
Is this a dup of #587469 ?
Comment 5 Xavier Claessens 2009-09-22 09:16:01 UTC 
*** Bug 595883 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Guillaume Desmottes 2009-10-01 15:28:04 UTC 
*** Bug 587469 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Guillaume Desmottes 2010-03-24 09:11:31 UTC 
*** Bug 613694 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Omer Akram 2010-04-24 15:31:30 UTC 
Also reported at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/569286
Comment 9 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-22 13:33:22 UTC 
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