today's rawhide broke GDM themes

Scott Berry sberry at northlc.com
Fri Oct 12 20:40:30 UTC 2007


Ray,

I think the dialog should be shown once with an okay button and when the 
okay button is pressed then it goes to the fedorainfinity font.

Ray Strode wrote:
> Hi,
>> On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 09:17 -0400, Fulko Hew wrote:
>> > As of this mornings' rawhide update, rather than getting the normal
>> > GDM login screen, I now get an error message and that 'flower' login
>> > screen that was (still) popping up on logout/shutdown:
>> > > "There was an error loading the theme Fedora DNA > Can't open 
>> file /usr/shar/gdm/themes/FedoraDNA/FedoraDNA.xml"
>>
>> If you had switched (back) to the dna theme from the default theme,
>> you'll need to install fedoradna-gdm-theme.  Unfortunately, there's not
>> really a good way to handle this while not wanting to pull in all of the
>> packages for the majority case
>>   
> On the other hand, we should probably make the error less scary like:
>
> "The theme you were using is no longer available.  We'll load Fedora 
> Infinity instead"
>
> or some such, and we should only show the dialog once (or maybe not at 
> all?)
>
> --Ray
>


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Scott Berry
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