Bug#304891: cannot change theme without metacity installed

Robert Bihlmeyer Robert Bihlmeyer <robbe@orcus.priv.at>, 304891@bugs.debian.org
Sat, 16 Apr 2005 11:41:58 +0200


Package: capplets
Version: 1:2.8.2-3
Severity: normal

When I start gnome-theme-manager the following error comes up:

  The default theme schemas could not be found on your system. This
  means that you probably don't have metacity installed, or that your
  gconf is configured incorrectly.

First, this is a silly error message from an usability standpoint.
There is no excuse not to check whether metacity is installed, and
give a more specific error -- none of that "either this happened, or
that, or I made a boo-boo ..." nonsense.

But the main point of this report is that it's not at all clear why I
need a specific window manager installed to be able to change my GTK
theme. Needless to say this worked well before, and I never had
metacity installed.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-h1
Locale: LANG=de_AT@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_AT (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages capplets depends on:
ii  capplets-data        1:2.8.2-3           configuration applets for GNOME 2 
ii  gnome-control-center 1:2.8.2-3           The GNOME Control Center for GNOME
ii  gnome-desktop-data   2.8.3-2             Common files for GNOME 2 desktop a
ii  gnome-icon-theme     2.8.0-4             GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  gnome-panel          2.8.3-1             launcher and docking facility for 
ii  gnome-session        2.8.1-6             The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii  libart-2.0-2         2.3.17-1            Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0          1.8.0-4             The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudiofile0        0.2.6-6             Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libbonobo2-0         2.8.1-2             Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0       2.8.1-2             The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                2.3.2.ds1-20        GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libeel2-2            2.8.2-1             Eazel Extensions Library (for GNOM
ii  libesd-alsa0 [libesd 0.2.35-2            Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA) - 
ii  libfontconfig1       2.3.1-2             generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6         2.1.7-2.3           FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgail-common       1.8.2-1             GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgail17            1.8.2-1             GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgconf2-4          2.8.1-5             GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt11          1.2.0-11            LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglade2-0          1:2.4.2-2           library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.6.4-1             The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2   2.8.3-2             Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome-keyring0    0.4.2-1             GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0          2.8.1-2             The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0    2.8.0-1             A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0         2.8.1-3             The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0       2.8.4-2             The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnutls11          1.0.16-13           GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libgpg-error0        1.0-1               library for common error values an
ii  libgstreamer-plugins 0.8.8-3             Various GStreamer libraries and li
ii  libgstreamer0.8-0    0.8.9-2             Core GStreamer libraries, plugins,
ii  libgtk2.0-0          2.6.4-1             The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6              4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62            6b-10               The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libmetacity0         1:2.8.8-1           Common library of lightweight GTK2
ii  libnautilus2-2       2.8.2-2             libraries for nautilus components 
ii  liborbit2            1:2.12.1-1          libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0        1.8.1-1             Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0             1.7-5               lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6               4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System Session Management
ii  libstartup-notificat 0.8-1               library for program launch feedbac
ii  libtasn1-2           0.2.10-4            Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libx11-6             4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxext6             4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxft2              2.1.7-1             FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxklavier8         1.03-1              X Keyboard Extension high-level AP
ii  libxml2              2.6.16-7            GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2           4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System Resize, Rotate and
ii  libxrender1          0.8.3-7             X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  xlibs                4.3.0.dfsg.1-12     X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii  zlib1g               1:1.2.2-4           compression library - runtime

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