today's rawhide broke GDM themes

Ray Strode rstrode at redhat.com
Fri Oct 12 15:22:41 UTC 2007


Hi,
> On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 09:17 -0400, Fulko Hew wrote:
> > As of this mornings' rawhide update, rather than getting the normal
> > GDM login screen, I now get an error message and that 'flower' login
> > screen that was (still) popping up on logout/shutdown:
> > 
> > "There was an error loading the theme Fedora DNA 
> > Can't open file /usr/shar/gdm/themes/FedoraDNA/FedoraDNA.xml"
>
> If you had switched (back) to the dna theme from the default theme,
> you'll need to install fedoradna-gdm-theme.  Unfortunately, there's not
> really a good way to handle this while not wanting to pull in all of the
> packages for the majority case
>   
On the other hand, we should probably make the error less scary like:

"The theme you were using is no longer available.  We'll load Fedora 
Infinity instead"

or some such, and we should only show the dialog once (or maybe not at all?)

--Ray




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