Bluebird uses removed controls for chrome; please use attached instead.

thanks a lot for pointing this out!
i'm currently reworking parts of the theme for natty (which you can check out here: http://shimmerproject.org/hg/bluebird-colors), i'll test/apply your theming suggestions for both bluebird and greybird (and maybe even albatross) and will report again here.

Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!

thanks again, this has been taken care of in greybird (successor-theme of bluebird) and will soon also be fixed in bluebird!

It's not fixed in Greybird in Xubuntu 11.04-beta1

Can you please specify how it is not fixed?
using chrome/ium >= v.9.0.5* (which is the case in 11.04beta1) it works perfectly.

Keep in mind that you have to change chromium's settings to use the gtk-theme and system borders by hand in the "Under the hood" tab (if I remember the name of the tab correctly).

If this still doesn't work for you please give me more information, e.g. what version of chromium you're using and how it doesn't work. Thanks.

Maybe it's my mistake, I'll test it later this week.

Here is what I get: Title color is different from tabs-area color, with "Use Gtk+ theme" enabled.
Additionally, "Zoom" option in the menu looks ugly.

Also, Chromium uses Gtk+ theme by default on regular Ubuntu, why don't you do the same?

hey again,
sorry, i really cannot reproduce this. i made a screenshot for you and attached it, it should show all the relevant info.
please let me know about the difference between your version and mine.
thanks in advance.

@Dmitry

> Also, Chromium uses Gtk+ theme by default on regular Ubuntu, why don't you do the same?

Chromium checks the DESKTOP_SESSION environment variable to see whether it's on a GTK+ based desktop and to enable gtk+ rendering if it is. While I haven't installed any of the Natty betas yet, previously that's been set to either /xfce\d?/ or "xubuntu".

The actual xdg shell scripts check for a string on xprop, which we'd prefer to not do. If there's another xfce specific environment variable that we should be checking, please file a bug at new.crbug.com.

@Simon

That looks great with the system title bars, but does it still look OK if you use compact borders (Preferences > Personal Stuff > Hide system title bar and use compact borders)? Compact borders are the default on whitelisted window managers and "Xfwm4" is a whitelisted WM.

hey elliot,
thanks for the heads-up. here goes a screenshot of chromium with compact borders. looks pretty decent imo.

Agreed. Just wanted to make sure the case was covered.

The output:
Gtk-Message: (for origin information, set GTK_DEBUG): failed to retrieve property `ChromeGtkFrame::frame-color' of type `GdkColor' from rc file value "((GString*) 0xb8c517c0)" of type `GString'
Gtk-Message: (for origin information, set GTK_DEBUG): failed to retrieve property `ChromeGtkFrame::inactive-frame-color' of type `GdkColor' from rc file value "((GString*) 0xb8c517d0)" of type `GString'
Gtk-Message: (for origin information, set GTK_DEBUG): failed to retrieve property `ChromeGtkFrame::scrollbar-slider-normal-color' of type `GdkColor' from rc file value "((GString*) 0xb8c51930)" of type `GString'
Gtk-Message: (for origin information, set GTK_DEBUG): failed to retrieve property `ChromeGtkFrame::frame-gradient-color' of type `GdkColor' from rc file value "((GString*) 0xb8cae900)" of type `GString'
Gtk-Message: (for origin information, set GTK_DEBUG): failed to retrieve property `ChromeGtkFrame::inactive-frame-gradient-color' of type `GdkColor' from rc file value "((GString*) 0xb8cae920)" of type `GString'

All is OK when I start Chromium with LC_ALL=C (my current locale is ru_RU.utf8). Also, here is output with GTK_DEBUG set:

Gtk-Message: /usr/share/themes/greybird/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:662: failed to retrieve property `ChromeGtkFrame::frame-color' of type `GdkColor' from rc file value "((GString*) 0xb7cc07c0)" of type `GString'
Gtk-Message: /usr/share/themes/greybird/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:663: failed to retrieve property `ChromeGtkFrame::inactive-frame-color' of type `GdkColor' from rc file value "((GString*) 0xb7cc07d0)" of type `GString'
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Sorry for the spam :)

@Elliot: is this an issue in Chromium?

thanks for reporting/linking this upstream, don't think i can do anything about that in the theme.

This is a bug in GTK+; not in chromium: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647908

(I have a minimal test case showing off the bug on the gtk+ tracker)

Also: :-(

A fix has been committed upstream for the locale issue.

thanks elliot!

@dmitry: would be nice if you could test the fix later or check when it lands in natty.

I have filed a new report for this: bug 772492.

A fix has been committed to git (https://github.com/shimmerproject/Bluebird/commit/4d90ac29a43116b4bbdcb19665dbab097a96b8f6).

This bug was fixed in the package shimmer-themes - 1.5.0-0ubuntu1

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shimmer-themes (1.5.0-0ubuntu1) quantal; urgency=low

  * Update Greybird to latest tag (v0.9). lp: #924853,#947436,#982820,#1016713
  * Update Bluebird to latest tag (v0.6). lp: #686239,#977431
  * Update Albatross to latest tag (v1.2). lp: #989814,#1023056
  * debian/control: demote gtk3-engines-unico to recommends as most themes
    are now engine-free.
  * debian/shimmer-wallpapers.install: update paths, wallpapers are in their
    own branch/subtarball now.
  * debian/shimmer-themes.install: ship Albatross' metacity theme.
  * debian/shimmer-themes.links: drop greybird -> Greybird compatibility
    symlinks. lp: #985320
 -- Lionel Le Folgoc <email address hidden> Sat, 28 Jul 2012 22:28:31 +0200