Bug#831678: gtk2-engines-murrine: Text shadow misaligned for desktop icons on XFCE

[Matt Beary]

Package: gtk2-engines-murrine
Version: 0.98.1.1-6
Followup-For: Bug #831678

I have been having this issue as well.  It does look like the Ubuntu bugreport 
claims to be fixed in 0.98.2, so catching up to upstream may solve this issue 
(https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=827451)

bug discussion on the repository for the theme I've been using:
https://github.com/B00merang-Project/B00merang-Themes/issues/17

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages gtk2-engines-murrine depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0  2.22.0-1
ii  libc62.24-12
ii  libcairo21.14.10-1
ii  libfontconfig1   2.12.3-0.1
ii  libfreetype6 2.8-0.2
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0   2.36.5-2
ii  libglib2.0-0 2.52.3-1
ii  libgtk2.0-0  2.24.31-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0   1.40.6-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0  1.40.6-1
ii  libpangoft2-1.0-01.40.6-1
ii  libpixman-1-00.34.0-1

Versions of packages gtk2-engines-murrine recommends:
ii  murrine-themes  0.98.11

gtk2-engines-murrine suggests no packages.

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Bug#831678: gtk2-engines-murrine: Text shadow misaligned for desktop icons on XFCE

[Vlad Orlov]

Hi,

I found an old thread [1] on Xfce forum, there's a discussion about how fonts 
look
on the desktop. Not sure if it's relevant now, but there are some interesting 
code
samples for gtkrc file.


[1] https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=9283

Bug#831678: gtk2-engines-murrine: Text shadow misaligned for desktop icons on XFCE

[Jeremy Bicha]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 9:29 AM, Vlad Orlov  wrote:
> I'd suggest setting textstyle to 1 instead of 0. It might work.

Setting it to 1 triggered the bug for me too.

I think this is a bug in Xfce's desktop icon handling, and having
themes disable murrine's text shadows is a workaround.

Thanks,
Jeremy

Bug#831678: gtk2-engines-murrine: Text shadow misaligned for desktop icons on XFCE

[Vlad Orlov]

Hi,

The guys at [1] confirm the problem goes away after [2] and don't mention
the disappearance of the shadows. However, in case they missed it somehow,
I'd suggest setting textstyle to 1 instead of 0. It might work.


[1] https://github.com/numixproject/numix-gtk-theme/issues/492
[2] https://github.com/numixproject/numix-gtk-theme/pull/496

Bug#831678: Re: Bug#831678: gtk2-engines-murrine: Text shadow misaligned for desktop icons on XFCE

[James Lu]

Hi everyone,

As far as I'm concerned, what the patches for Numix and Arc actually do
is turn off desktop text shadows entirely, so they're more workarounds
than actual fixes. From my experience, Xfce desktop icon labels without
shadowing become blandly white, which doesn't contrast well with lighter
wallpapers.

A quick look at
https://github.com/shimmerproject/Greybird/blob/master/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
finds no results for "textstyle = 5", which I believe is what enables
shadowing in the first place. That's probably why it's not affected. Arc
[1], Vertex [2], and Numix [3] on the other hand, have all used this
styling.

[1] https://github.com/horst3180/arc-theme/pull/606/files
[2]
https://github.com/horst3180/vertex-theme/blob/60a868e/common/gtk-2.0/gtkrc#L2351
[3] https://github.com/numixproject/numix-gtk-theme/pull/496/files

Best,
James

On Mon, 18 Jul 2016 16:27:38 +0300 =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZCBPcmxvdg==?=
 wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Sorry guys, I mostly tested the patch in various Debian & Ubuntu 
> installations with MATE.
> The only Xfce system I've tried was Xubuntu 14.04, and I didn't see any 
> regressions there.
> 
> Looking at bug reports linked to the mentioned LP report, I noticed a 
> screenshot showing
> that GreyBird theme isn't affected [1]. Also it seems to be fixed now in 
> Numix theme [2].
> 
> Are Numix, Arc and Vertex themes related somehow?
> 
> [1] https://github.com/horst3180/arc-theme/issues/607
> [2] https://github.com/numixproject/numix-gtk-theme/pull/496



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Bug#831678: gtk2-engines-murrine: Text shadow misaligned for desktop icons on XFCE

[Vlad Orlov]

Hi,

Sorry guys, I mostly tested the patch in various Debian & Ubuntu installations 
with MATE.
The only Xfce system I've tried was Xubuntu 14.04, and I didn't see any 
regressions there.

Looking at bug reports linked to the mentioned LP report, I noticed a 
screenshot showing
that GreyBird theme isn't affected [1]. Also it seems to be fixed now in Numix 
theme [2].

Are Numix, Arc and Vertex themes related somehow?

[1] https://github.com/horst3180/arc-theme/issues/607
[2] https://github.com/numixproject/numix-gtk-theme/pull/496

Bug#831678: gtk2-engines-murrine: Text shadow misaligned for desktop icons on XFCE

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On Mon, 2016-07-18 at 08:20 -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> Package: gtk2-engines-murrine
> Version: 0.98.1.1-6
> 
> The most recent gtk2-engines-murrine update (0.98.1.1-6) to fix bug
> 827134 caused a regression in some themes on the Xfce desktop. The
> text shadow is significantly misaligned with the text for Xfce desktop
> icons. See https://launchpad.net/bugs/1598316
> 
> You can verify using arc-theme which was recently packaged in Debian.
> 
> In my testing, I was not able to duplicate this issue on Ubuntu MATE
> which also uses GTK2 but uses Nautilus to draw the desktop. Therefore,
> I'm thinking this bug should be raised with Xfce.
> 
Thanks for the report, I'm adding Vlad to recipients since he provided the
patch.

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis

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Bug#831678: gtk2-engines-murrine: Text shadow misaligned for desktop icons on XFCE

[Jeremy Bicha]

Package: gtk2-engines-murrine
Version: 0.98.1.1-6

The most recent gtk2-engines-murrine update (0.98.1.1-6) to fix bug
827134 caused a regression in some themes on the Xfce desktop. The
text shadow is significantly misaligned with the text for Xfce desktop
icons. See https://launchpad.net/bugs/1598316

You can verify using arc-theme which was recently packaged in Debian.

In my testing, I was not able to duplicate this issue on Ubuntu MATE
which also uses GTK2 but uses Nautilus to draw the desktop. Therefore,
I'm thinking this bug should be raised with Xfce.

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha