clicking on Revert silently removes the user's .gtkrc-2.0 file
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GTK Theme Config |
Fix Released
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Critical
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Unassigned | ||
| gtk-theme-config (Debian) |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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| gtk-theme-config (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Report from Vincent Lefevre in Debian:
I was wondering why Iceweasel was no longer working as expected...
I finally found the cause: my ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file had been removed.
Then I remembered that I used gtk-theme-config recently. After
some tests, clicking on the "Revert" button has this effect of
removing the ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file, without even leaving a backup!
When changing some settings, gtk-theme-config modifies this file.
But when the user clicks on "Revert", gtk-theme-config should just
remove the settings it added, e.g. by using begin/end markers, not
the whole file! Or if is this too difficult, it should warn the
user before doing a destructive operation.
Note also that it isn't documented at all that gtk-theme-config
uses the ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file. This is even more surprising as
gtk-theme-config depends on libgtk-3-0 (thus GTK+ 3, not GTK+ 2).
Related branches
| Changed in gtk-theme-config (Debian): | |
| status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
| Sean Davis (bluesabre) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in gtk-theme-config: | |
| status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
| Changed in gtk-theme-config: | |
| milestone: | none → 1.2.1 |
| Sean Davis (bluesabre) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in gtk-theme-config: | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in gtk-theme-config (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Fix Released |
| Changed in gtk-theme-config (Debian): | |
| status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
The fix for this is now committed and will be in the next release.
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