GNOME applications do not respect the chosen XFCE style

[Paul Smith]

Dear All,

I am running XFCE on Fedora 22. And my problem is that the GNOME
applications does not obey to the windows style I have chosen for XFCE
applications. Any idea how to solve this problem?

Thanks in advance,

Paul

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 22:36:17 +0100
Paul Smith  wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I am running XFCE on Fedora 22. And my problem is that the GNOME
> applications does not obey to the windows style I have chosen for XFCE
> applications. Any idea how to solve this problem?
>
> Thanks in advance,

Xfce is gtk2 based, most gnome3 applications are gtk3 based.

Setting a gtk2 theme won't change any gtk3 apps. 
So, make sure you have a gtk3 based them to set them to.

xfce-theme-manager package might be of help (it lets you see all the
themes you have installed/available and lets you tweak and set them).

kevin

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 07/11/2015 07:02 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 22:36:17 +0100
> Paul Smith  wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > I am running XFCE on Fedora 22. And my problem is that the GNOME
> > applications does not obey to the windows style I have chosen for XFCE
> > applications. Any idea how to solve this problem?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
>
> Xfce is gtk2 based, most gnome3 applications are gtk3 based.
>
> Setting a gtk2 theme won't change any gtk3 apps.
> So, make sure you have a gtk3 based them to set them to.

Could you be more verbose. What exactly are people supposed to install 
and which themes/settinga are known to work?

At least I have not been able to find any xfce/gtk2/gtk3 theme combo 
which harmonizes well with gnome3-apps under xfce on fc22 and deserves 
to be named "functional".

IMO, it's all an annoying and dysfunctional mess.

Ralf

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 06:10:05 +0200
Ralf Corsepius  wrote:
> Could you be more verbose. What exactly are people supposed to
> install and which themes/settinga are known to work?

Any theme that has both a gtk2 and gtk3 version should mostly work.

adwaita-gtk2-theme.x86_64
albatross-gtk2-theme.noarch
albatross-gtk3-theme.noarch
bluebird-gtk2-theme.noarch
bluebird-gtk3-theme.noarch
clearlooks-phenix-gtk2-theme.noarch
clearlooks-phenix-gtk3-theme.noarch
egtk-gtk2-theme.noarch
egtk-gtk3-theme.noarch
greybird-gtk2-theme.noarch
greybird-gtk3-theme.noarch
light-gtk2-theme.noarch
light-gtk3-theme.noarch
zukini-gtk2-theme.noarch
zukini-gtk3-theme.noarch
zukitwo-gtk2-theme.noarch
zukitwo-gtk3-theme.noarch
zukiwi-gtk2-theme.noarch
zukiwi-gtk3-theme.noarch

Or any locally installed one in ~/.themes that has both gtk2/gtk3.

Of course some have bettter coverage than others...
> At least I have not been able to find any xfce/gtk2/gtk3 theme combo 
> which harmonizes well with gnome3-apps under xfce on fc22 and
> deserves to be named "functional".
>
> IMO, it's all an annoying and dysfunctional mess.

Well, adwaita is supposed to (it has a gtk2 version as well).

In the end it's somewhat personal preference...

kevin

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 07/14/2015 07:11 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 06:10:05 +0200
> Ralf Corsepius  wrote:
> > Could you be more verbose. What exactly are people supposed to
> > install and which themes/settinga are known to work?
>
> Any theme that has both a gtk2 and gtk3 version should mostly work.
>
> adwaita-gtk2-theme.x86_64
> albatross-gtk2-theme.noarch
> albatross-gtk3-theme.noarch
> bluebird-gtk2-theme.noarch
> bluebird-gtk3-theme.noarch
> clearlooks-phenix-gtk2-theme.noarch
> clearlooks-phenix-gtk3-theme.noarch
> egtk-gtk2-theme.noarch
> egtk-gtk3-theme.noarch
> greybird-gtk2-theme.noarch
> greybird-gtk3-theme.noarch
> light-gtk2-theme.noarch
> light-gtk3-theme.noarch
> zukini-gtk2-theme.noarch
> zukini-gtk3-theme.noarch
> zukitwo-gtk2-theme.noarch
> zukitwo-gtk3-theme.noarch
> zukiwi-gtk2-theme.noarch
> zukiwi-gtk3-theme.noarch

Thanks for the list. I'll check if I can find a functional combo 
throughout the next couple of days.
> Or any locally installed one in ~/.themes that has both gtk2/gtk3.

I don't have such folder - Is it supposed to be present and/or created?
> Of course some have bettter coverage than others...
> > At least I have not been able to find any xfce/gtk2/gtk3 theme combo
> > which harmonizes well with gnome3-apps under xfce on fc22 and
> > deserves to be named "functional".
> >
> > IMO, it's all an annoying and dysfunctional mess.
>
> Well, adwaita is supposed to (it has a gtk2 version as well).

adwaita doesn't seem to work. It seems to be being ignored by Firefox 
and Thunderbird and not harmonize well with some gnome3 apps (eg. 
rhythmbox).

Of those I've tried so far, clearlooks-phenix seems to be closest to be 
functional with most apps, unfortunately it seems to have problems in 
computing the geometry/position of certains widgets correcty (I haven't 
tried to investigate deeper, yet).

Ralf