GTK applications using dark variant by default, uses light variant if Adwaita theme is not set by default

[Alexander Larsson]

On sön, 2016-10-02 at 00:35 -0300, Bastián Díaz wrote:
> Hello, I have noticed this problem only in distributed applications
> as 
> Flatpak and wanted to know if it is a known problem, and that in the 
> future even Flatpak applications could use the theme set by the user 
> instead of using only Adwaita.
> 
> In short, only when using Adwaita default theme, the Flatpak GTK 
> applications that prefer the dark variant use this version, otherwise
> if 
> user use any other theme, the light variant is shown. The problem
> with 
> this is that a somewhat strange mix shown on many occasions. For 
> example:
> 
> https://cloud.woelkli.com/index.php/s/4QHuxzYAib3wjTV
> 
> (Tested in Fedora 24 64 bit: Gnome, XFCE and Budgie)
> 
> Related bug: https://phabricator.freedesktop.org/T7490
> 

I think the issue is that the gnome runtime ships adwaita (light +
dark), but doesn't ship other themes. If you're using a different theme
and it is installed in /usr on the host, then it wouldn't be visible to
the app.

However, it should work if you install the theme in the users home-
directory (and the app has access to that).


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