firefox-themes-ubuntu

[Ian Jackson]

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 ?

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.

Ian.

(Brandon: this is in response to your mail to me over the weekend.)