What happened to gnome appearances?

[dd_wizard]

It's been MIA long enough that my grey brain cells can't remember where it used to be. I'm pretty sure it was in Preferences and Control Center, as well as being available by right clicking the desktop and selecting Change Desktop Background. Is it missing for everyone? It could be that I have a bad desktop file in my home directory, rather than being bitten by a bug.

dd_wizard

[Finalzone]

Look for System -> Preferences -> Appearences on Gnome desktop. I have no problem seeing inside Control Center as well so possibly a bad file.

[GoinEasy9]

I also have had a non-functioning System -> Preferences -> Appearance for a few weeks. It's there in the menu, but does't work. Under Control Center it has disappeared.

[dd_wizard]

It's not in my menus or control center, but it is there when I right click the desktop. The problem is, it fails silently when I try to start it from the desktop. That's the same symptom as gnome-power-preferences, odd. I couldn't find any broken files in /home, so I tried reinstalling control-center and control-center-filesystem to no avail. I'll keep poking around though.

dd_wizard

---------- Post added at 02:26 PM CDT ---------- Previous post was at 01:32 PM CDT ----------

@Finalzone:

What version of control-center are you running? I checked the file lists on koji, and /usr/bin/gnome-appearace-properties disappeared when control-center was updated to 2.31.5. The changelog for that update doesn't mention that change:

Changelog
 * Tue Jul 13 2010 Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com> 2.31.5-1
 - Update to 2.31.5

 * Wed Jun 30 2010 Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com> 2.31.4.2-1
 - Update to 2.31.4.2

File lists for those versions:

2.31.5-1
/usr/bin/gnome-at-mobility	2205
/usr/bin/gnome-at-visual	2205
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center	41032
/usr/bin/gnome-font-viewer	25168
/usr/bin/gnome-thumbnail-font	19544
/usr/bin/gnome-typing-monitor	41192
...
/usr/sbin/gnome-display-properties-install-systemwide	8392
/usr/share/applications/gnome-control-center.desktop	7984

2.31.4.2-1
/usr/bin/gnome-appearance-properties	209888
/usr/bin/gnome-at-mobility	2205
/usr/bin/gnome-at-visual	2205
/usr/bin/gnome-control-center	41048
/usr/bin/gnome-font-viewer	25296
/usr/bin/gnome-thumbnail-font	19544
/usr/bin/gnome-typing-monitor	41192
...
/usr/sbin/gnome-display-properties-install-systemwide	8408
/usr/share/applications/gnome-appearance-properties.desktop	6991
/usr/share/applications/gnome-control-center.desktop

When something similar happened to gnome-volume-control.desktop, I fixed it by deleting the old desktop in my home directory. However, I can't find an old desktop file for appearance-properties.

dd_wizard

---------- Post added at 02:52 PM CDT ---------- Previous post was at 02:26 PM CDT ----------

@GoinEasy9:
Did the whole "Look and Feel" section of Control Center disappear for you along with the Appearance icon? I'm looking at /etc/xdg/menus/gnomecc.menu and trying to figure out how that category is provided to CC. I think something went wrong with our update to control-center-2.31.5.

dd_wizard

[GoinEasy9]

No, from what I can remember, it was just the Appearance Icon that disappeared. I'm not home to double check, but I remember going through the whole Control Center to make sure it wasn't in another section. Assistive technologies, input method, keyboard were all there.

[vallimar]

The gnome-control-center devs moved away from using capplets for the next version of gnome.
So they decided, in their brilliance, that instead of converting those capplets, they should just
nuke the directory and all the capplets inside it. Makes for less work on their part I guess.

Makes for a super lousy gnome experience on ours.

[GoinEasy9]

With the delay in the release of Gnome 3, and the subsequent extra release of gnome 2 (what would that be 2.32 or 2.33?) I'm thinking that some of the newer apps that depend on gtk3 might be stepped back until the release of Gnome 3 is closer. That's just a guess. Since F14 was supposed to be released with Gnome 3, I guess the devs have a whole lot of problems that need to be worked out.

Originally Posted by GoinEasy9

With the delay in the release of Gnome 3, and the subsequent extra release of gnome 2 (what would that be 2.32 or 2.33?) I'm thinking that some of the newer apps that depend on gtk3 might be stepped back until the release of Gnome 3 is closer. That's just a guess. Since F14 was supposed to be released with Gnome 3, I guess the devs have a whole lot of problems that need to be worked out.

it'll be Gnome-2.32 with Gnome/GTK3 Modules/Apps you'll have GTK2 and GTK3 side by side in 2.32 untill Gnome3 is actually released they will deprecate GTK2 i would guess.

[vallimar]

Look like things got reverted for control-center-2.31.6-1.
The appearance panel is back!