Description of problem: I've done a few clean installs of F18 and when I try and use a user downloaded theme put in the ~/.themes directory the metacity component fails to load. I can choose other built-in metacity themes such as Aging Gorilla Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Installed Packages Name : metacity Arch : x86_64 Version : 2.34.13 Release : 1.fc18 How reproducible: All the Time Steps to Reproduce: 1.yum install gnome-tweak-tool-3.6.1-2.fc18.noarch, this installs the following Dep-Install gnome-shell-extension-common-3.6.2-1.fc18.noarch @updates Dep-Install gnome-shell-extension-user-theme-3.6.2-1.fc18.noarch @updates Install gnome-tweak-tool-3.6.1-2.fc18.noarch @fedora 2. create ~/.themes 3. download and install a user theme e.g. http://mmesantos1.deviantart.com/gallery/37488553#/d5jcyj4 4. restart Gnome3 (reboot or alt-F2 restart) choose "Current Theme" with Gnome-tweak-tool Actual results: Metacity displays the last chosen distribution installed theme Expected results: Metacity should display theme from ~/.themes/Themename/ Additional info:
An additional fact. Installing the theme to /usr/share/themes means the metacity (or maybe it's mutter) part of the theme loads fine.
Changed component to mutter. from metacity.
Changed title
This was a conscious upstream decision, see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=675316. Themes should be installed in ~/.local/share/themes/ThemeName now.
Hmmmmm. That was well publicised then. Should I file a bug that Gnome is loading GTK and shell themes from ~/.themes when it shouldn't be?
Actually I've tested this and Gnome doesn't show any GTK or mutter themes that are placed in ~/.local/share/themes/Themename gnome-shell themes appear in the tweak tool but aren't applied when selected.
I think I've solved it. You need copies in both, a symbolic link from ~/.local/share/themes to ~/.themes does the job.
(In reply to comment #7) > You need copies in both, a symbolic link from ~/.local/share/themes to ~/.themes does the job. Glad it worked out for you! Still, requiring copies in both does sound horribly broken - would you mind filing an upstream bug?
Filed bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693350
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