[arch-general] GTK2 GUIs became a PITA after upgrade

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 11 Apr 2016 19:14:48 +0000, Sajjad Heydari wrote:
>My theme was broken as well, but switching to Adwaita worked.

Actually Adwaita, which wasn't upgraded, does look different after the
upgrade. I already used Adwaita before the upgrade. Perhaps I could fix
the lightdm greeter by switching to Adwaita.

I downgraded the adwaita-icon-theme to get rid of the new, completely
different icons.

But as already pointed out, it's not just a broken look, some
functionality doesn't work anymore. Evolution upstream fixed several
bugs that are related to the GTK changes, 3.20.1 was released today
and I build it using ABS. However, Claws still has got issues with
the mouse-cursor in the subject line.

[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ grep -v '#' .gtkrc-2.0

gtk-theme-name = "Adwaita"
style "user-font"
{
	font_name="FreeSans 12"
}
widget_class "*" style "user-font"


[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ cat .config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
[Settings]
gtk-theme-name=Adwaita
gtk-font-name=FreeSans 12


[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ grep theme-name= /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf
theme-name=Zen-papero
icon-theme-name=GNOME
[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ wmctrl -m
Name: Openbox
Class: 
PID: N/A
Window manager's "showing the desktop" mode: OFF


[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ grep theme-name= /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf
theme-name=Zen-papero
icon-theme-name=GNOME


[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ sudo pacman -Syu
[snip]
warning: adwaita-icon-theme: ignoring package upgrade (3.18.0-1 => 3.20-1)
[snip]
warning: evolution: local (3.20.1-1) is newer than extra (3.20.0-1)
warning: evolution-bogofilter: local (3.20.1-1) is newer than extra (3.20.0-1)
warning: evolution-data-server: local (3.20.1-1) is newer than extra (3.20.0-2)
warning: evolution-spamassassin: local (3.20.1-1) is newer than extra (3.20.0-1)
[snip]