Ubuntu
xfce4 package

Stock Xfce does not have a default GTK 3 theme

Bug #1050012 reported by simula67 on 2012-09-12

This bug affects 4 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	xfce4 (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Wishlist	Unassigned

Bug Description

The stock Xfce in ubuntu ( installed by : apt-get install xfce4 xfce4-goodies) does not have a default GTK3 theme.
Gtk 3 applications look ugly after default install ( See attachment : Rhythmbox_without_gtk3_theme.png )

Users are working around this currently manually adding a theme like this [1]:
$ cp -fdr /usr/share/themes/Radiance/gtk-3.0 ~/.config/gtk-3.0/

It would be nice if we can do this by default when a user installs Xfce so that immediately he or she gets applications that look like attachement Rhythmbox_with_gtk3_theme.png

[1]
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1919130

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/utopic/xfce4-settings

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simula67 (simula67) wrote on 2012-09-12:

Rhythmbox with and without GTK themes Edit (210.5 KiB, application/zip)

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Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit) wrote on 2012-10-19:

There's gtk3-engines-xfce in quantal (it has probably some issues with the latest gtk version though).

affects:	xfce4-goodies (Ubuntu) → xfce4 (Ubuntu)
Changed in xfce4 (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist
status:	New → Confirmed

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Thaddaeus Tintenfisch (thad-fisch-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2014-08-27:

The package xfce4 could recommend gtk3-engines-xfce or shimmer-themes (bug 1322305).

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Sean Davis (bluesabre) wrote on 2014-09-26:

This bug was fixed in the package xfce4-settings - 4.11.3-0ubuntu2

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xfce4-settings (4.11.3-0ubuntu2) utopic; urgency=medium

  * Update debian/control to better support stock Xfce sessions with
    xubuntu_vanilla-session-themes.patch
    - Add greybird-gtk-theme to Recommends (LP: #1050012, #1322305)
    - Add xubuntu-icon-theme to Recommends (LP: #1157706)
-- Sean Davis <email address hidden> Wed, 24 Sep 2014 20:18:24 -0400