Bug#590340: requires gnome-themes to start (Could not find a theme!)

[Michael Biebl]

found 590340 3.0.2-2
thanks

On 28.05.2012 18:26, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Version: 3.0.2-2
> 
> I'm going to close this bug.
> gnome-shell has a Recommends: gnome-themes-standard which will provide
> the theme that is going to be loaded via libmutter.
> A hard dependency is not strictly necessary, as mutter has a fallback
> theme 

Actually, I was wrong about this.
I had metacity-common installed, so the fallback theme was provided by
metacity-common. I removed this package and tried again, and then
gnome-shell indeed failed to start, with the following error message:

> Window manager warning: Failed to load theme "Adwaita": Failed to find a valid file for theme Adwaita
> 
> Window manager warning: Failed to load theme "Simple": Failed to find a valid file for theme Simple
> 
> Window manager warning: Failed to load theme "Emacs": Failed to find a valid file for theme Emacs
> 
> Window manager warning: Failed to load theme "Default": Failed to find a valid file for theme Default
> 
> Window manager warning: Failed to load theme "Raleigh": Failed to find a valid file for theme Raleigh
> 
> Window manager error: Could not find a theme! Be sure /usr/share/themes exists and contains the usual themes.

So, the preferred theme is Adwaita, and then libmutter tries a list of
fallback themes.
I did the same test for mutter, with basically the same result.
metacity itself also prefers the Adwaita theme, and tries to load it
first. As it ships a couple of own themes though in metacity-common and
metacity depends on that package, it will not fail to start.

I thus plan to do the following:
1/ Bump the existing Recommends: gnome-themes-standard to Depends in
gnome-shell
2/ Add a Depends: gnome-themes-standard to mutter
3/ Add a Recommends: gnome-themes-standard to metacity.

Michael

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