Bug 789780

Summary: Thunderbird not properly respecting icon and cursor themes
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Ved Vyas <ved>
Component: thunderbirdAssignee: Gecko Maintainer <gecko-bugs-nobody>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 15CC: gecko-bugs-nobody, stransky
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Buttons using stock icons instead of from my theme
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Change in mouse cursor when busy. Should use my theme. none

Description Ved Vyas 2012-02-12 22:39:11 UTC
Created attachment 561325 [details]
Buttons using stock icons instead of from my theme

Description of problem: Thunderbird is not respecting my icon and mouse cursor themes as it did before.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Thunderbird 10 x86_64 from updates repo.


How reproducible: Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set custom icon theme for GNOME as well as custom cursor theme (dmz)
2. Look at bar above loaded message that has Reply, Forward, and other buttons.
3. Click on Inbox and observe "busy" mouse cursor.
  
Actual results: See attached screengrabs. buttons.png is what I see from 2). cursor_loading_messages.png shows what is seen in 3).


Expected results: Buttons should use icons from my icon theme in ~/.icons/theme-name. Mouse cursor shouldn't revert to the the system default (?).


Additional info: I'm using GNOME 3 fallback. The mouse cursor issue first appeared with Thunderbird 9 from updates. I previously had some issues with Thunderbird and/or Firefox not respecting the cursor theme in F15. One or all of the following measures were necessary:

1) Setting the desired cursor theme with gnome-tweak-tool
2) Creating ~/.icons/default/index.theme with the contents:

[Index Theme]
Name = Default
Inherits = dmz

3) Setting something in gconf-editor.

Capturing the mouse cursor change in the act was a pain. Neither gnome-screenshot nor ksnapshot worked (and yes, I enabled the option for mouse cursor in gconf and the dialog box, respectively). What worked is something like:

let i=0; while [ 1 ]; do ffmpeg -f x11grab -pix_fmt rgb24 -r 25 -s 3360x1050 -i :0.0 -vframes 1 temp_$i.png; let i=i+1; done

Because of an issue (ffmpeg.org/trac/ffmpeg/ticket/163) and the fact that I already grabbed PNGs, I converted to bitmap.

Comment 1 Ved Vyas 2012-02-12 22:40:16 UTC
Created attachment 561326 [details]
Change in mouse cursor when busy. Should use my theme.

Comment 2 Martin Stransky 2012-02-15 09:12:03 UTC
There's a movement at mozilla which tries to do Firefox/Thunderbird more polished and nice, I think https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572482 is the relevant bug. Anyway, if you don't agree, please file a bug at upstream (at bugzilla.mozilla.org), but we're not going to change it for Fedora only.