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

[Stephen]

Appreciate the clarification - I was not aware that this was the case,
but it does make sense. Is this true of fetching updates as well, or
only in terms of rebuilding things? Thanks!
On Mon, 11 Apr 2016, Doug Newgard wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 14:15:45 +0930
> Stephen <mailman at tuxcon.com> wrote:
> 
> > For what it's worth, I was able to resolve this issue in the end by
> > simply removing + reinstalling my theme (which was Arc). Installing
> > Adwaita also worked.
> > 
> > Removing and reinstalling solved the issue because it rebuilt against
> > Gnome 3.20. I'd only recently switched to Arch, and had therefore
> > wrongly assumed that anything that needed to would be rebuilt against
> > the new Gnome version.
> 
> Everything *in the repos* that needed to was rebuilt against 3.20. The Arc
> theme is in the AUR, which you have to manage yourself.
> 
> > 
> > Lesson learned :)