GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 729494
Disable dark theme plugin does not disable the dark theme
Last modified: 2019-02-22 03:16:24 UTC
Created attachment 275794 [details] Dark EOG window with the plugin enabled The Disable dark theme plugin works right after it is enabled, but after closing and reopening the EOG window will be dark again. This started after upgrading to 3.12 and still exists with 3.12.1
The plugin needs an open display to change the theme setting. However, since 3.12 the display is opened quite a bit later when starting eog. Additionally the per-app plugins are activated at the wrong place, which causes the plugin to activate before the display is available. The fix moves per-app plugin activation at the end of the startup which also avoids the unneeded activation of the plugins when just reusing an existing eog instance. commit 066be17db6a58b55d7c93d7bcb43c2a7fae050ad Author: Felix Riemann <> Date: Sun May 4 14:13:54 2014 +0200 EogApplication: Activate per-app plugins in the startup callback If activated in the init function the application could not be as initialized as expected by the plugins. Also this avoids the unneeded plugin enumeration when reusing an instance. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=729494 --- 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.
Applied to the gnome-3-12 stable branch as well.