On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 03:07:22PM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 12:34:36PM +0200, Landry Breuil wrote:
> > > One other nit I just noticed (that you may have already fixed too) is
> > > that in settings->appearance->style, selecting different styles doesn't
> > > make a difference.
> >
> > Well it totally does here, so maybe you dont have xfconf or xfsettingsd
> > running for some reason. Or you've only tried broken styles :)
>
> I figured out what's going on here.
>
> xfce-4.14 accepts only GTK-3 themes and the themes in gtk-xfce-engine
> are GTK-2.
>
> The xfce-4.14 release notes say:
>
> > As always it's also time to say goodbye to some older unmaintained or
> > deprecated projects. (Luckily our projects only go to the attic aka
> > the archive on git.xfce.org when they die.) With a salty teardrop of
> > sadness we bid farewell to:
> >
> > garcon-vala, gtk-xfce-engine, pyxfce, thunar-actions-plugin, xfbib,
> > xfc, xfce4-kbdleds-plugin, xfce4-mm, xfce4-taskbar-plugin,
> > xfce4-windowlist-plugin, xfce4-wmdock-plugin and xfswitch-plugin
>
> And in the changelog:
>
> > The gtk-xfce-engine has been deprecated and archived.
>
> So basically, if you want a theme other than the default, you will have
> to download one and it has to be for gtk3 ;)
>
> I guess we should remove the gtk-xfce-engine port?
That's more or less why i've replaced the RUN_DEPENDS in the meta port,
removing gtk-xfce-engine and adding greybird.
The gtk-xfce-engine port is still useful for ppl who only want a Gtk+2
theme.. outside of Xfce.
Landry
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