As for themes, I've kept my modded (blue-green) UbuntuStudio_Legacy port current, supports GTK2, GTK 3.14 through GTk 3.20 and even development GTK 3.21. (GTK 3.14 now deprecated for my other packages due to breakage). You can see for yourself in this package how to support multiple GTK 3 versions, you just keep the previous version's theme in a versioned subdirectory and add a new one for each GTK 3 version. With "snap" packages coming in for things like Firefox and some no doubt using different GTK3 versions, this may soon be mandatory.
Debian package is in my usual Archive repo at https://archive.org/details/DebianPackagesForMate-desktopWityGtk3AndCustomPanelTheme Link to the theme .deb package itself is at https://archive.org/download/DebianPackagesForMate-desktopWityGtk3AndCustomPanelTheme/gtk-theme-ubuntustudio-legacy-2.1.0_all.deb but that link will break when the theme is next updated and that version moved to "previous_versions" On 4/22/2016 at 4:04 PM, "Ralf Mardorf" <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net> wrote: > >On Fri, 22 Apr 2016 12:35:09 -0700 (PDT), Len Ovens wrote: >>Yes I can confirm that nautilus has become less useful than in >14.04 >>(even) I guess it must be a gnome application where removing >>functionallity is considered progress. >> >>So nautilus is effectively broken/non-standard/not DE- >agnostic/not >>recomended for xfce. >> >>I can also confirm that thunar fails for me after about 4 file >renames. > >I switched to openbox a long time ago and I use a selection of apps >such as spacefm, roxterm and other, however, GTK3 upstream already >introduced the next fun. The current official GTK3 is broken. The >best >bet is to use as many GTK2 apps as possible and now the bomb drops, >keep old themes for GTK2 apps and expect that old themes won't work >with GTK3 anymore, OTOH new themes are a PITA. I don't expect that >this >will be fixed, I guess apart from a few bugs, breakage is intended. >However, some coders switch from GTK to Qt, but there are also >issues >with Qt. > >https://sourceforge.net/projects/qt5ct/ doesn't work correctly and >yes, >I set the environment variable. > >$ echo $QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME >qt5ct > >This is on an Arch Linux install, but soon or later Debian and >Ubuntu >will be affected from upstream insanity too. > >Now people start dropping Xfce4, however, it's impossible to get >rid >of all bugs, even openbox, i3 etc. with apps that don't depend to a >desktop environment suffer from GTK upstream. > >Yet there seems to be no way to solve the desktop issue. The Linux >desktop is broken. > >-- >ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list >ubuntu-studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com >Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel -- ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list ubuntu-studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
