[pkg-cinnamon] Bug#822777: cinnamon-control-center: There are not Gtk-3 themes in the list of window themes, only Gtk-2.

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

On Sun, 2016-05-29 at 11:02 +0000, Margarita Manterola wrote:
> Yes, I noticed yesterday that with the minimal install there are no 
> window border themes.
Strange... especially because the Adwaita package is installed...


>  I'm adding metacity-common as a 
> recommends for the cinnamon package, so that there will be 
> windowing themes to choose from.
hmm sounds like some other issue however, if a package from a specific
WM that isn't even used, is needed to get themes from other, installed
packages, usable.

Wouldn't it be better to have, whatever metacity-common contains
special that is needed to make the themes visible, be put in another *-
common package?

> > >Can you please clarify how you downloaded and how you installed 
> > > the mentioned theme?
> > I'm only using the themes from Debian packages.
> 
> Ok, so Maxy tells me that there was some conversation on IRC 
> that I missed about this.  Apparently by the end of this
> conversation 
> it was figured that only themes with both GTK2 and GTK3 
> engines are taken into account, which makes sense given 
> that we currently still have GTK2 programs.
> 
> So, I guess this part is working as intended, and then the fact 
> that no theme is shown is due to the lack of metacity-common, 
> which will be fixed in cinnamon's next upload.

Hmm I see... but why does adwaita then show up for the controls themes,
if it would have no gtk2 version?


> Do you agree?
Well I don't know too little of the inner workings of GTK2/3 themes,
that I could judge a lot here.
I just think it seems a bit odd, that cinnamon, which has nothing to do
with metacity, would need to depend on one of its package.


Cheers,
Chris.
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