What is even worse, is that most of these changes that hard-code Ubuntu's theme happened on the edge of the Feature Freeze period, meaning any attempts to revert them or improve them are impaired by bureaucracy.
Please try to see why this is a problem, and learn from this in the future. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1715722 Title: Allow safe override of GDM3 theme Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Currently, in artful, GDM3's theme is hardcoded to be /usr/share /gnome-shell/theme/ubuntu.css In the Ubuntu default session, this is the same CSS file as the gnome- shell mode in /usr/share/gnome-shell/modes/ubuntu.json However, in other flavors, it makes sense to install another mode json and theme css file with a clear name. Take, for instance, pop-session, that installs /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/pop.css and /usr/share /gnome-shell/modes/pop.json In order to supply a custom GDM3 theme, which is currently hardcoded, the ubuntu.css file must be replaced with this pop.css file. This breaks ubuntu-session, causing it to have a different shell theme than expected. What would be desirable is for the GDM3 CSS file to be hardcoded to gdm.css, which would be a symlink to the correct stylesheet for the flavor. This would allow multiple GNOME Shell sessions to be installed at the same time. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1715722/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
