Fedora 34 Xfce doesn't seem to be themed properly

[Neal Gompa]

Hey all,

So I checked out the latest Xfce spin compose in Fedora 34, and I've
discovered a couple of surprising things:

* The Fedora wallpaper isn't showing up
* Inconsistent visuals (some Xfce apps are using Adwaita style, and
others aren't)

Has anyone taken a look to see what's going on here? It seems a bit wonky...

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[Mukundan Ragavan]

On 2/23/21 8:52 AM, Neal Gompa wrote:
>  Hey all,
>  
>  So I checked out the latest Xfce spin compose in Fedora 34, and I've
>  discovered a couple of surprising things:
>  
>  * The Fedora wallpaper isn't showing up 
let me take a look at that.

>  * Inconsistent visuals (some Xfce apps are using Adwaita style, and
>  others aren't)
>   
Can you provide screenshots so that I know what to look for?

Thanks!


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[Neal Gompa]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 5:36 PM Mukundan Ragavan <nonamedotc(a)gmail.com&gt;
wrote:

>  On 2/23/21 8:52 AM, Neal Gompa wrote:
>  > Hey all,
>  >
>  > So I checked out the latest Xfce spin compose in Fedora 34, and I've
>  > discovered a couple of surprising things:
>  >
>  > * The Fedora wallpaper isn't showing up
>
>  let me take a look at that.
>
>  > * Inconsistent visuals (some Xfce apps are using Adwaita style, and
>  > others aren't)
>  >
>
>  Can you provide screenshots so that I know what to look for?
>
>  
Here's a screenshot that demonstrates all of this:

[image: Screenshot_2021-02-21_13-04-58.png]


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[Mukundan Ragavan]

On 2/23/21 6:01 PM, Neal Gompa wrote:
>  On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 5:36 PM Mukundan Ragavan
> <nonamedotc(a)gmail.com 
>  <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>  
>  
>  
>      On 2/23/21 8:52 AM, Neal Gompa wrote:
>       > Hey all,
>       >
>       > So I checked out the latest Xfce spin compose in Fedora 34, and I've
>       > discovered a couple of surprising things:
>       >
>       > * The Fedora wallpaper isn't showing up
>  
>      let me take a look at that.
>  
>       > * Inconsistent visuals (some Xfce apps are using Adwaita style, and
>       > others aren't)
>       >
>  
>      Can you provide screenshots so that I know what to look for?
>  
>  
>  Here's a screenshot that demonstrates all of this:
>  
>  Screenshot_2021-02-21_13-04-58.png
>  
>  
>  --  
I think client side decorations is not ported to all xfce apps. I wonder 
if that's the difference ... correct me if I am wrong.

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[Neal Gompa]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 6:09 PM Mukundan Ragavan <nonamedotc(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  On 2/23/21 6:01 PM, Neal Gompa wrote:
>  > On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 5:36 PM Mukundan Ragavan <nonamedotc(a)gmail.com
>  > <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >     On 2/23/21 8:52 AM, Neal Gompa wrote:
>  >      > Hey all,
>  >      >
>  >      > So I checked out the latest Xfce spin compose in Fedora 34, and I've
>  >      > discovered a couple of surprising things:
>  >      >
>  >      > * The Fedora wallpaper isn't showing up
>  >
>  >     let me take a look at that.
>  >
>  >      > * Inconsistent visuals (some Xfce apps are using Adwaita style, and
>  >      > others aren't)
>  >      >
>  >
>  >     Can you provide screenshots so that I know what to look for?
>  >
>  >
>  > Here's a screenshot that demonstrates all of this:
>  >
>  > Screenshot_2021-02-21_13-04-58.png
>  >
>  >
>  > --
>
>  I think client side decorations is not ported to all xfce apps. I wonder
>  if that's the difference ... correct me if I am wrong.
>  
That may be the case. Perhaps there's a way to set Adwaita for stuff
not using CSDs yet?



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[Mukundan Ragavan]

On 2/23/21 6:10 PM, Neal Gompa wrote:
>  On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 6:09 PM Mukundan Ragavan
> <nonamedotc(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
> > 
> >
> > I think client side decorations is not ported to all xfce apps. I wonder
> > if that's the difference ... correct me if I am wrong.
> >
>  
>  That may be the case. Perhaps there's a way to set Adwaita for stuff
>  not using CSDs yet?
>  
>  
>   

I do not know of a way to do that. I will add that I see the same 
behavior with Mint-Y theme as well. So, this might be something that can 
be done with the theme.


Also, I will add the patch to use default fedora background. I just 
remembered that I removed the xfdesktop patch at some point. Thanks for 
pointing this out.

Mukundan.


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[Simon Steinbeiss]

Hi folks,

the screenshot looks as it should. Only the settings dialogs of Xfce were
ported to CSD (and as you can see a CSD that closely resembles the server
side decoration style for now).

We considered adding a user setting that would both trigger
gtk-dialog-use-header=1 and also set GTK_CSD=1 globally for a more
consistent look, but as setting such environment variables via a setting
feels ugly we so far refrained.
There is also https://github.com/andreldm/xfwm4-theme-generator which
generates an Xfwm4 decoration based on the currently selected CSD. We're
still investigating if we can integrate this into Xfce for 4.18 so the
looks would be more homogeneous again. (I presume most Xfce users use
*some* Gnome or Gnome-style apps already, so the visual inconsistency
between CSD and SSD has been around for some time...)

Cheers
Simon


On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 2:05 AM Mukundan Ragavan <nonamedotc(a)gmail.com&gt;
wrote:

>  On 2/23/21 6:10 PM, Neal Gompa wrote:
>  > On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 6:09 PM Mukundan Ragavan <nonamedotc(a)gmail.com&gt;
>  wrote:
>  >>
>
>  >>
>  >> I think client side decorations is not ported to all xfce apps. I wonder
>  >> if that's the difference ... correct me if I am wrong.
>  >>
>  >
>  > That may be the case. Perhaps there's a way to set Adwaita for stuff
>  > not using CSDs yet?
>  >
>  >
>  >
>
>
>  I do not know of a way to do that. I will add that I see the same
>  behavior with Mint-Y theme as well. So, this might be something that can
>  be done with the theme.
>
>
>  Also, I will add the patch to use default fedora background. I just
>  remembered that I removed the xfdesktop patch at some point. Thanks for
>  pointing this out.
>
>  Mukundan.
>
>
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>  GPG Key: E5C8BC67
>
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