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 -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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