[ubuntu-art] call for Gutsy artwork

[Kenneth Wimer]

On Monday 30 July 2007 00:26:34 Alex Jones wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 11:31 +0900, Brian White wrote:
> > This is a question I've had about synaptic for a while now--why doesn't
> > it conform to the rest of the desktop's theme?  Is it a GTK1
> > application?  If it is, what needs to be done to port synaptic to GTK2
> > so that it will fit in with the rest of the desktop?  Is this something
> > the art team can help with, or would it require more heavy lifting on
> > the programming side?
>
> It is already GTK2, it's just that firstly your theme is only in your
> user theme folder, i.e. ~/.themes, and secondly you're running Synaptic
> as root rather than your normal user.
>
> It actually works fine if you use system-installed themes (this includes
> whatever themes you want to install in /usr/share/themes.

Thanks so much for explaining this problem. Excellent work.

Ken