How to change themes (was Re: How do we change fonts now)

[Bastien Nocera]

On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 23:13 +0100, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 17.02.2011, 13:15 -0800 schrieb Adam Williamson:
> > On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 21:58 +0100, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> > > Am Donnerstag, den 17.02.2011, 14:55 -0500 schrieb Clyde E. Kunkel:
> > > > Please, oh please, someone tell me how to change the fonts in gnome 3 
> > > > now.
> > > 
> > > And I'd like to know how to change themes. This is not yet implemented,
> > > right? As this affects other desktops as well (think of
> > > gnome-packagekit), it should be high priority.
> > > 
> > > And shouldn't GNOME apps respect xsettings anyway and pick up changes
> > > made say with xfce4-appearance-settings or lxappearance?
> > 
> > There's a dconf key you can poke to change GTK theme (run dconf-editor
> > and search for Adwaita and you should find it).
> 
> Unfortunately both dconf and dconf-editor are crashing on the livecd.
> 
> What about my other question: Shouldn't gnome-apps pick up xsettings or
> is this a GTK2 vs. GTK3 thing?

They pick up XSettings, which are stored in GSettings, and exported
through gnome-settings-daemon. See the xsettings plugin there.

Cheers