Bug 19388

Summary:	Vertex gtk theme
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	aguador <waterbearer54>
Component:	New RPM package request	Assignee:	All Packagers <pkg-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal	CC:	marja11, michaelfm21, tarakbumba
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	vertex-theme	CVE:
Status comment:

Description aguador 2016-09-16 22:08:51 CEST

Mageia already offers a good set of gtk themes, but many do not keep up with the gtk3 changes other than the "official" Gnome theme.

Vertex is an exception. It not only keeps up with the gtk3 changes,  it provides an elegant dark theme for those of us who prefer dark, together with the files needed for Firefox (for example) to display dark themes properly. I have used this in another distro with Evolution which is closely tied to the latest gtk3 and it performs flawlessly. It also adapts to the new Gnome frameless format.

In addition, the Vertex default colours include a blue that fits perfectly with Mageia's theme and, less importantly, the Enlightenment default theme.

With Mate quickly completing its transition to gtk3 and XFCE working on it, this would be a sound addition to the themes available in Mageia. According to the theme's github pages, Fedora includes it in its repositories, meaning that it may be easy to modify from that build.

Please see: https://github.com/horst3180/Vertex-theme

Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2016-09-20 20:11:43 CEST

Assigning to the default assignee for package requests

CC: (none) => marja11
Assignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugs
Source RPM: (none) => vertex-theme
Severity: normal => enhancement

Comment 2 Michael Martins 2016-10-03 16:47:20 CEST

Source RPM: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/zhonghuaren/Fedora_24/src/vertex-theme-20160329-10.1.src.rpm

CC: (none) => michaelfm21

Comment 3 Atilla ÖNTAŞ 2017-02-18 22:08:33 CET

Theme is submitted to Cauldron including these packages:

cinnamon-theme-vertex-20170128-1.mga6.noarch.rpm
gnome-shell-theme-vertex-20170128-1.mga6.noarch.rpm
vertex-alt-metacity-theme-20170128-1.mga6.noarch.rpm
vertex-dark-gtk2-theme-20170128-1.mga6.noarch.rpm
vertex-dark-gtk3-theme-20170128-1.mga6.noarch.rpm
vertex-dark-metacity-theme-20170128-1.mga6.noarch.rpm
vertex-dark-xfwm4-theme-20170128-1.mga6.noarch.rpm
vertex-gtk2-theme-20170128-1.mga6.noarch.rpm
vertex-gtk3-theme-20170128-1.mga6.noarch.rpm
vertex-light-gtk2-theme-20170128-1.mga6.noarch.rpm
vertex-light-gtk3-theme-20170128-1.mga6.noarch.rpm
vertex-light-metacity-theme-20170128-1.mga6.noarch.rpm
vertex-light-xfwm4-theme-20170128-1.mga6.noarch.rpm
vertex-metacity-theme-20170128-1.mga6.noarch.rpm
vertex-plank-theme-20170128-1.mga6.noarch.rpm
vertex-theme-common-20170128-1.mga6.noarch.rpm
vertex-xfwm4-theme-20170128-1.mga6.noarch.rpm

Request is now fulfilled so closing bug report.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => tarakbumba
Resolution: (none) => FIXED

Comment 4 aguador 2017-02-24 12:29:23 CET

Atilla,

Fantastic, thank you very much. It is such a pleasure to have a functional dark theme back.

I know this is closed, but rather than open another bug report, perhaps it makes sense to note a two things that I noticed were missing:

1) Where are the dark themes for Firefox and Chromium? Without them forms on some websites will not work properly, displaying white text on a white background (e.g., the web interface of one of my mail accounts!).

2) Also missing is the README file that gives instructions for copying over the dark theme for FF.

I've started apprenticing to become a packager, but am having trouble finding the time. If I can today, but I'll take a look at your spec file today. However, if it helps, I see from the Arch PKGBUILD (which takes a different approach than for rpm) that the Chrome and Firefox components are declared separately: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=vertex-themes

Comment 5 Atilla ÖNTAŞ 2017-02-24 14:33:05 CET

Thank you reporting. I' ll add README.md which was forgotten. Besides that Chrome and Firefox themes should applied by user manually per README and themes for a web browser are always contains security risk. Also, packages should automate things and usually shouldn't have requirement that a user manually do something. So, i decided to exclude them from packages. You should get and install web browser themes manually. Sorry.

Comment 6 Atilla ÖNTAŞ 2017-02-24 14:35:46 CET

Ah, looking at the package again README.md is provided by vertex-theme-common package and available at /usr/share/doc/vertex-theme-common/README.md so no issue regarding this.

Comment 7 aguador 2017-02-24 15:20:08 CET

My apologies for the confusion on the README. I just checked the theme directory when looking for the FF theme. I'm normally conservative when it comes to security risks, but I've never noted anything strange with the Vertex FF when I was using it in another distro (and I recognize that does not mean there is none). As far as automation, the dark themes I've used all seem to require manual intervention for the browser themes for whatever reason.

Thanks again for packaging this and responding so quickly.