@flocculant, had this bug been noticed before the SRU went out everywhere, it wouldn't have been released. I feel I was fairly proactive on this issue (I don't even use Xfce) pinging the original commit writer and the Debian maintainer and pushing a bit on some theme developers. And I release-noted the issue. I thought Xubuntu was aware of the issue but maybe I should have made sure of that.
At this point, the bug is "fixed" in yakkety in that the only distro theme I am aware of that is still affected is arc-theme (I just have to ping the maintainer of the arc-theme to backport the upstream commit, but arc-theme isn't packaged in Xenial.) For Xenial, we can just backport the numix-gtk-theme patch to the shimmer-themes package and then this bug is fixed for all distro themes I believe. That is on my to-do list unless someone gets to it sooner. It took me longer than I expected to get numix-gtk-theme repackaged in Yakkety. If you still think the murrine bugfix to be reverted, you can go ahead. It might not be necessary now though... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gtk2-engines-murrine in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1598316 Title: gtk2-engines-murrine desktop text shadow problem Status in Arc Theme: New Status in Numix GTK theme: Fix Released Status in arc-theme package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in gtk2-engines-murrine package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in shimmer-themes package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in xfdesktop4 package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in gtk2-engines-murrine package in Debian: New Bug description: Upgraded my xubuntu 16.04 system on 01 Jul 2016. The apt update included an upgrade to gtk2-engines-murrine. However, after the upgrade and boot, the any desktop text, folder, launcher, etc. had a problem with the text and shadow being quite far apart. This bug affects themes that use the textstyle feature of the murrine engine on xfdesktop4. Ubuntu MATE 16.04, which also uses gtk2 but has caja draw the desktop icons instead of xfdesktop, is not affected. The only known affected theme packaged in Xubuntu 16.04 is numix-gtk- theme. Third-party affected themes include Arc and Vertex. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/arc-theme/+bug/1598316/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
