Lubuntu 14.04 Ignores User Color-Customization

[Israel]

On 05/03/2014 07:26 PM, Aere Greenway wrote:
> Rafael:
>
> I will report it as a bug.  What package should it be reported against? 
>
> Unfortunately, it appears to be one more step down the Ubuntu road of
> taking away customization.  So I'm doubtful anything will come of it. 
> But it means a lot to me, so I will report it, nevertheless. 
>
> It may well be the end of color customization. 
>
> - Aere
>
>
> On 05/03/2014 05:33 PM, Rafael Laguna wrote:
>> More clues. I've tested on a few environments.
>>
>> 1. Lubuntu does no colorize at all. Nor fgtk2 nor gtk3.
>> 2. XFCE (using Shimmer's gtk-theme-config) DOES colorize only gtk2
>> (pretty normal, as usually gtk3 is not able to do this)
>> 3. Mate. The same as XFCE, only colorizes gtk2 apps (I insist, gtk3
>> apps cannot be colorized as is, they need to be tweaked via .gtk-3.0 RC).
>> 4. Ubuntu hasn't this feature anymore.
>>
>> So, as colorization works in every environment as eexpected, the
>> problem is ours. But themes react fine in other desktops, so there's
>> no problem at all on engines or themes RC files.
>>
>> So, once tested all steps, there's only one left: the LXDE session
>> settings daemon. Shall we declare it as a bug?
>>
>>
>> --
>> Rafael Laguna
>> Lubuntu Artwork Team
>>
>>
>> 2014-05-04 0:23 GMT+02:00 Rafael Laguna <rafaellaguna at ubuntu.com
>> <mailto:rafaellaguna at ubuntu.com>>:
>>
>>     Yes, I can't customize Lubuntu-default, experimental Box, or even
>>     Adwaita. Now I'm testing Xubuntu themes and they seem to be
>>     un-colorizable too. Something's happening to the Desktop Settings
>>     daemon. It's not theme or engine related. It also affects GTK3.
>>
>>     Let me try more tests on other environments and I hope to have an
>>     answer or, at least, a clue.
>>
>>
>>
>>     --
>>     Rafael Laguna
>>     Lubuntu Artwork Team
>>
>>
>>     2014-05-03 22:37 GMT+02:00 Aere Greenway
>>     <Aere at dvorak-keyboards.com <mailto:Aere at dvorak-keyboards.com>>:
>>
>>         All:
>>
>>         I encountered a problem with Lubuntu 14.04 which (to me) is a
>>         show-stopper.  I'm sure it isn't as important to others.
>>
>>         I have my own peculiar style of customized colors.  One of
>>         the main reasons my primary system uses Lubuntu is because of
>>         the color-customization, which retains the ease-of-use that
>>         was present in Ubuntu 11.04.
>>
>>         I upgraded a Lubuntu 13.10 system for which the colors worked
>>         fine. After the upgrade to 14.04, the color customization
>>         does not appear in any windows I have tried (and I have tried
>>         a lot of them).
>>
>>         Even in the window where you change the appearance with
>>         custom colors, it shows that it remembers the colors I
>>         specified, but the specified colors are not used in the
>>         window in which I specify them.
>>
>>         It appears that color-customization can be done in the
>>         preferences settings, but the color customization you specify
>>         is universally ignored.
>>
>>         Does anyone have any idea of how to make color-customization
>>         work in Lubuntu 14.04?
>>
>>         -- 
>>         Sincerely,
>>         Aere
>>
>>
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>
>
> -- 
> Sincerely,
> Aere
>
>
Of course you can always make your own theme, so it will never be dead. 
I have made a few themes for the WM, and the panel is still customizable
fortunately.
@Aere, Rafael did say the bug was in lubuntu session settings daemon.

-- 
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