My hunch is that this has to do with how the Human themes have theme definitions for GTK2 but not GTK3—other themes like this seem to be having similar problems, now.
The best workaround I’ve found is this one: https://www.opendesktop.org/s/mate/p/1013593/ It took a little bit of fidgeting for me to get this to work correctly, and there are still some bugs, but someone has created workable new versions of the Human themes. Personally, I used the “Human Quarny Clearlooks” theme, by copying its folder (renaming it “Human-Quarny-Clearlooks”) into “~/.themes”, then copying the “metacity-1” folder from “Human Quarny” into “Human-Quarny- Clearlooks”, and updating the index.theme file to rename the theme “Human Quarny Clearlooks” and then specify the sub-themes (except for icon theme, which stays “Humanity”) as “Human-Quarny-Clearlooks” instead of just “Human”). …That was way too complicated, but just copying the theme folders into “~.themes” created four or so different “Human” themes in the “Appearance” theme selector, and I had a feeling that madness lied that way. Oh, and the most obvious bug I’ve found is that some applications (like Emacs and Geany) have a weird scrollbar issue where the scrollbar slider is drawn but never un-drawn, so if you slide it around pretty soon your whole scrollbar is orange. (I note this here as a precaution and to see if anyone else has the same problem—after all, I did install the theme in a rather wacky fashion) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gtk+2.0 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1721955 Title: Human, Human-Clearlooks and other themes have incorrect gray window title color Status in community-themes package in Ubuntu: New Status in compiz package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in gtk+2.0 package in Ubuntu: New Status in gtk+3.0 package in Ubuntu: New Status in human-theme package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in marco package in Ubuntu: New Status in mate-themes package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Steps to reproduce: 1. Install Ubuntu 17.10 MATE or 18.04 LTS MATE 2. Install Human theme from `human-theme` package 3. Select Human theme from `mate-control-center` Appearance Expected results: window title color is set to Ubuntu's orange (#FFBE6B) Actual results: window title color is set to different gray/silver color (#a5a5a2) Note: other themes are affected too. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10 Package: human-theme 0.39.2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-12.13-generic 4.13.3 Uname: Linux 4.13.0-12-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu2 Architecture: i386 CurrentDesktop: MATE Date: Sat Oct 7 15:43:03 2017 InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-07 (0 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-MATE 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha i386 (20170925.1) PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: human-theme UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/community-themes/+bug/1721955/+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
