firefox-themes-ubuntu

[Brandon Holtsclaw]

Ian Jackson wrote:
> As many of you will have noticed, firefox in edgy has been changed to
> use the `human' theme by default.  This is why it has an additional
> dependency on firefox-themes-ubuntu.
> 
> I have had some comments to the effect that this change isn't
> desirable in {k,x,ed}ubuntu, and ends up overriding a default setting
> in those distributions.  I'd like to understand this better.  Do the
> *ubuntu deriviatives have a different default theme for the rest of
> the desktop ?

Yes, how Kubuntu handles this for say the application "Amarok" is we 
have our artwork and themes included or as a dep of 
kubuntu-default-settings , this would be the give desired affect of now 
having "kubuntu" colors and theme for amarok installed if it is say 
installed in ubuntu from <insert fav package manager here>.

afaik there is a ubuntu-default-setings package similar to the kubuntu 
one and this would / could provide the desired effect. I dont know about 
{ed,x} personaly but I would assume they have similar packages to handle 
such things

And as far as diffrent themes yes none of the other derivitives use 
human afaik ( Kubuntu dosent for sure and from the scren shots of the 
others it dosent seem they do either )

> Unfortunately most of the suggested fixes to this problem haven't been
> ideal, and the situation isn't trivial to fix.  The configuration is
> part of the _firefox_ package, and is not a side-effect of installing
> firefox-themes-ubuntu.  Indeed, it is somewhat hard to make the
> configuration depend on the set of installed packages, because firefox
> does not (currently) read any configuration file that is not a
> conffile.  If this is an important problem to fix then I should
> investigate adding such a config file (or better, an
> /etc/firefox/conf.d or some such), where other packages can change the
> firefox default configuration.

forgive my ignorance here but if ubuntu-default-settings depended on the 
ff themes package would it not change what you are currently changing 
now to make the theme work by default when installed as a firefox 
dependancy ?

Brandon

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Brandon Holtsclaw
imbrandon at kubuntu.org