Bug#886068: gtk-theme-config: raising severity of gconf dependency bug

[Simon Steinbeiss]

Hi Jeremy,

I've worked a little on gtk-theme-config after seeing the Debian bug for
the first time (plus it's actually utterly broken with modern Gtk+3
versions) and to be honest I don't see how it could work with the way
themes are set up these days with sass and resource files. (E.g. changing
the selected-bg-color, which was one of the most prominent features, is
practically impossible to "get right"/consistent results with multiple
themes.)

So we will likely drop it from Xubuntu 18.04 and it will become deprecated.
I guess Debian should drop it too, can't imagine anyone still uses it for
anything (only the Gtk2 parts still work ok).

Cheers
Simon

On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 7:53 PM Jeremy Bicha <jbicha at debian.org> wrote:

> Control: severity -1 serious
>
> As announced [1], we are working to remove gconf from Debian. As part
> of this process, I am now raising the severity of this bug.
>
> Please try to port your package away from gconf. Otherwise, please
> consider requesting that your package be removed from Debian to help us
> complete this goal.
>
> [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2018/02/msg00169.html
>
> On behalf of the Debian GNOME team,
> Jeremy Bicha
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