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

Michael Biebl biebl at debian.org
Wed May 30 16:39:42 UTC 2012


On 30.05.2012 17:27, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> Michael Biebl wrote:
> 
>>    * Change Recommends: gnome-themes-standard to Depends. Adwaita is the
>>      prefererred window manager theme and without a theme installed gnome-shell
>>      refuses to start. Closes: #590340
> 
> Thanks!  Do you know what other packages provide window manager
> themes?

# apt-file search /usr/share/themes/ | grep metacity-theme-.*.xml \
| cut -f1 -d':' | sort -u
gnome-accessibility-themes
gnome-theme-gilouche
gnome-themes
gnome-themes-extras
gnome-themes-standard
gtk2-engines-aurora
gtk2-engines-cleanice
gtk2-engines-moblin
metacity-common
metacity-themes
murrine-themes
shiki-colors-metacity-theme
shiki-dust-theme

  Should they be listed as | alternatives, perhaps by using
> some appropriate Provides?

This list is definitely to long to be listed as alternatives.
Introducing a virtual Provides might be an option but is not a high
priority task imo.

Michael
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