Upgrading to 3.10 (PPA) with installed themes.

Satyajit Sahoo satyajit.happy at gmail.com
Wed Feb 19 17:44:18 UTC 2014


It is a bug in the GTK theme. To fix the black area, the theme
developer needs to set a background color on the .toolbar class.

Weird that it derives the color from toolbar. I would have preferred
if it used the main bg color or a darkened base color instead.

On 19 February 2014 23:03, Christian Dysthe <cdysthe at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 21:42 +0530, Satyajit Sahoo wrote:
>> The themes need to support your Gnome version if you want to use them
>> with a newer Gnome. Generally, there are minor glitches in the GTK
>> theme. The Gnome Shell themes have lots of issues since lots of
>> changes occur to the Shell every release.
>>
>> AFAIK, Moka GTK theme has GTK3.10 support. I don't know about the
>> Gnome Shell theme though. You can always purge the Moka PPA after the
>> upgrade if you find that the theme doesn't work for you.
>>
>> Issues related to Evolution couldn't be due to Gnome Shell theme. The
>> GTK theme must have a bug. You should report the bug to the developer.
>
> Below you will see a screen-shot of how Evolution looks after an update
> to 3.10. It has a black frame around emails both in preview and when the
> email is opened. Is this how Evolution should look in 3.10? I do not
> have any themes installed:
>
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/w4zetlgl32pei2j/Screenshot%20from%
> 202014-02-19%2011%3A19%3A21.png
>
> Is there a way I can change the black back to gray?
>
>>
>> On 19 February 2014 21:12, Christian Dysthe <cdysthe at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I'm running Ubuntu GNOME 13.10 on several laptops. On a couple I would
>> > like to run Gnome 3.10 upgraded with the PPA. I run the Moka icon, gtk
>> > and gnome-shell theme on all of the machines (very nice flat modern
>> > themes). I read in another thread that gnome-shell themes tend to mess
>> > up upgrades and I did have some color issues on the one machine I did
>> > upgrade already (especially in Evolution). So I wonder if that could be
>> > because I had the Moka stuff installed? If so, would it be a good idea
>> > to purge the Moka PPAs before I do the 3.10 upgrade?
>> >
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