GNOME Theme problems

[drmr]

I have this bug:

None of the themes works. Everytime I change the theme it continues to use the same default GNOME theme and just changes the colors.

Here is what is shown when started gnome-theme-manager from command line:

(gnome-theme-manager:7003): Gtk-WARNING **: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/engines/libbluecurve.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

(gnome-theme-manager:7004): Gtk-WARNING **: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/engines/libbluecurve.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

(gnome-theme-manager:7004): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_drawable_set_colormap: assertion `cmap == NULL || gdk_drawable_get_depth (drawable) == cmap->visual->depth' failed

(gnome-theme-manager:7004): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_get_qdata: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(gnome-theme-manager:7004): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_colormap_get_visual: assertion `GDK_IS_COLORMAP (colormap)' failed

(gnome-theme-manager:7004): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_visual_get_screen: assertion `GDK_IS_VISUAL (visual)' failed

(gnome-theme-manager:7003): capplet-common-WARNING **: Received EOF while reading thumbnail for gtk: 'Clearlooks', metacity 'Clearlooks', icon: 'Clearlooks', font: 'Sans 10'


It seem that the libraries are not there, but I have checked them and tried even to read them and everything was fine. I checked the paths in /etc/ld.so.conf and they are fine. Rerun the ldconfig and checked that the libraries are in the cache. Run ldd on /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/engines/libbluecurve.so - all dependencies were resolved. Everything looks perfectly fine.

The most strange things is that Firefox looks fine. It uses the theme. However the Thunderbird don't.

Anyone have any clue about this?
I'll be very thankful if any can suggest anything.

[tomcat]

Many many questions are left open:
1. Which system are you using? FC3? FC4?
2. Which themes are you trying to get to work on your system (you might need updated versions of engines, especially the Clearlooks engine)
3. Do you have qt-gtk engine installed in case you also use KDE?
4. Have you updated your system already?

[drmr]

yum check-update returns nothing. FC4.x86_64. All themes. Bluecurve, Clearlooks, Mist, ThinIce, everything. Even gtk-qt-engine don't work. I don't use KDE but have it installed tried to make them more alike as I use some programs which use Qt (amarok).

I now remember what was the thing which probably corrupted everything. I installed gtk-qt-engine using autopackage. I download it version 0.6 from http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fgtk_2dqt

If more info is needed...

I'm attaching the installed packages. I am using Fedora Extras and Livna repositories.

[tomcat]

Uninstall the qt-gtk engine if you use Gnome only. Once you install it, KDE will control the look of your gtk-apps, not Gnome.

[drmr]

OK. This was the first thing which I did with no luck. However I bring the heavy weapons and remove everything which have any relation to the themes - redhat-artwork, gtk2-engines.
It solved the problem. Now in all x86_64 applications everything works just fine.
However I use firefox (i think this is the only application which is i386) and it does not show properly. It says that the clearlooks module isn't in the path. No problem. I install gtk2-engines.i386 which provides the needed libraries for clearlooks, but this mess up the x86_64 apps. They start behave like I before. I remove it and everything will be OK.
I'll do some more tries to resolve this but I feel I'll have no luck. After all, maybe mixing i386 and x86_64 is not a good thing.

The main problem is that this worked perfectly OK before. Everything was fine.