A different GTK+ theme for root apps can be useful

Binary package hint: human-theme

This is more of a usability suggestion that needs discussion than a bug, maybe.

I'm aware that when you use a GTK+ theme, if it sits on both /usr/share/themes and ~/.themes, you will have different looks for apps ran as root and as the normal user. I used to have Shiki-Wise as the "root version" for all my shiki themes to tell me that the certain app is ran as root. It's just a hassle for me to implement that every time so I can't maintain it. This could be the reason why this feature is impractical to implement but a more solid way to materialize this could be a good feature for Ubuntu.

Now, I'm thinking of having the Human GTK+ theme to automatically be in the ~/.themes of every user and there's a different version of the theme on /usr/share/themes that tells the user that the app is running as root.

What can you say about this? :)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Nov 8 11:31:48 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
Package: human-theme 0.37
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_PH.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: human-theme
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64