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

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 11 Apr 2016 22:06:33 -0700, Kyle Terrien wrote:
>My first thought was "Adwaita", and looking at the list of packages,
>gnome-themes-standard is upgraded.  I suspect that Adwaita is the
>culprit.

My mind went blank for a long "moment", I missed that Adwaita is part
of this package. Thank you very much :).

$ grep gnome-themes-standard /var/log/pacman.log | grep 2016-04
[2016-04-10 19:57] [ALPM] upgraded gnome-themes-standard (3.18.0-1 -> 3.20-1)
[2016-04-12 09:33] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -U gnome-themes-standard-3.18.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz'
[2016-04-12 09:33] [ALPM] downgraded gnome-themes-standard (3.20-1 -> 3.18.0-1)

Now the old look is back :), this not necessarily means that I also got
rid of GTK hiccups.

>If Adwaita really is the culprit, file a bug with GNOME.  That's their
>domain.

OTOH, GTK2 apps are affected and the GNOME maintainers likely want to
make GTK2 apps look consistent with GTK3 GNOME apps, so that they
fit better to the bad design of the GNOME desktop environment. No, I
dislike insults from upstream, when reporting an issue. I have given up
to report to this kind of upstream, a long time ago.