user-installed themes do no show up on apps run via gksu et al
Bug #60547 reported by
Slight Slightly
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #24280: applications run through gksu cannot use themes in ~/.themes.
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| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| gksu (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Because the gnome-theme-manager doesn't require root privileges, themes that are installed through it are only installed for the current user.
This leads to any application requiring root privileges being displayed in the very ugly default Gnome theme.
As a 'power user' I can launch gnome-theme-manager via sudo from the shell and install the theme there as well, but a new user will have no idea that they have to do this, and it's counter-intuitive.
Perhaps apps run via sudo/gksu etc could default to human if the currently selected theme isn't installed, or perhaps there could be an 'admin theme'. This might have the added advantage of giving a clear visual clue to which apps are running under admin priv's.
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| Slight Slightly (slight--deactivatedaccount) wrote | #1 |
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| Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in control-center: | |
| assignee: | nobody → desktop-bugs |
| importance: | Untriaged → Wishlist |
| status: | Unconfirmed → Rejected |
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| Slight Slightly (slight--deactivatedaccount) wrote | #3 |
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Just to clarify my second para. Apps run via gksudo revert to the default *GTK* look and feel *if* the user is using a theme they installed themselves which isn't installed for the root user.