Upgrading to 3.10 (PPA) with installed themes.

Tim tim at feathertop.org
Wed Feb 19 21:58:48 UTC 2014


On 20/02/14 08:44, Christian Dysthe wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 23:14 +0530, Satyajit Sahoo wrote:
>> 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.
> I have looked more into this and there's others with this problem with
> other themes on Gnome 3.10. This is my exact problem:
>
> https://github.com/shimmerproject/Greybird/issues/40
>
> I'm not enough of a Gnome expert to fix it though. I'm having the black
> background in both Moka and Adwaita
Do you have overlay scrollbars enabled, if so disabling them will probably fix this.

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface ubuntu-overlay-scrollbars false


>
>> 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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