bug#70111: Gnome 44: Dark Theme not Working

bug#70111: Gnome 44: Dark Theme not Working

[Dariqq]

Hi Guix,

Updated my system to Gnome 44 f5558ee0cc1a11a8b61d3f4d43f05dd79d53ac77 
and the dark style setting in Gnome no longer works (compared to Gnome 
42), i.e. apps like gnome-control-center and nautilus still have the 
light theme even though the setting is set to Dark.

The setting from the control-center is applied correctly:

  guix shell glib:bin -- gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface 
color-scheme
'prefer-dark'

"GTK_THEME" is unset, no extra config in ~/.config/gtk-*.0/settings.ini 
and also Application>Appeareance in Gnome Tweaks is set to Adwaita-Dark.

Some results from searching online suggest to install xdg-desktop-portal 
and adding that to the system profile and rebooting indeed makes the 
dark setting work as expected.

Should this be handled by the gnome-desktop-service-type, i.e. added by 
one of the gnome-meta-packages (probably gnome-essential-extras)?

Thanks.

bug#70111: Gnome 44: Dark Theme not Working

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi,

Dariqq <dariqq@posteo.net> writes:

[...]

> Some results from searching online suggest to install
> xdg-desktop-portal and adding that to the system profile and rebooting
> indeed makes the dark setting work as expected.
>
> Should this be handled by the gnome-desktop-service-type, i.e. added
> by one of the gnome-meta-packages (probably gnome-essential-extras)?

A solution along these lines sound reasonable to me.  I think switching
to the dark theme should work out of the box if it's exposed in the UI.

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim

bug#70111: [PATCH] gnu: gnome-essential-extras: Propagate xdg-desktop-portal.

[Dariqq]

xdg-desktop-portal (and xdg-desktop-portal-gnome) is needed for the dark theme
in Gnome 44 to work properly.

* gnu/packages/gnome.scm (gnome-essential-extras)[propagated-inputs]: Add xdg-desktop-portal.

Change-Id: Id84626e6bc404e9607ee7f8f299ac90f24323081
---
 gnu/packages/gnome.scm | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/gnome.scm b/gnu/packages/gnome.scm
index c8305b0dd8..7209a14e67 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/gnome.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/gnome.scm
@@ -10306,6 +10306,7 @@ (define-public gnome-essential-extras
                             pulseaudio
                             shared-mime-info
                             system-config-printer
+                            xdg-desktop-portal
                             xdg-user-dirs
                             yelp
                             zenity))

base-commit: f26b42f6c07a00dd2cecb006846e672b88748b84
-- 
2.41.0

bug#70111: [PATCH] gnu: gnome-essential-extras: Propagate xdg-desktop-portal.

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hello,

Dariqq <dariqq@posteo.net> writes:

> xdg-desktop-portal (and xdg-desktop-portal-gnome) is needed for the dark theme
> in Gnome 44 to work properly.
>
> * gnu/packages/gnome.scm (gnome-essential-extras)[propagated-inputs]: Add xdg-desktop-portal.
>
> Change-Id: Id84626e6bc404e9607ee7f8f299ac90f24323081

Reviewed-by: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail>

Haven't tested it myself, but I trust the findings of Dariqq.

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim

bug#70111: [PATCH] gnu: gnome-essential-extras: Propagate xdg-desktop-portal.

[Liliana Marie Prikler]

Am Mittwoch, dem 03.04.2024 um 14:11 -0400 schrieb Maxim Cournoyer:
> Hello,
> 
> Dariqq <dariqq@posteo.net> writes:
> 
> > xdg-desktop-portal (and xdg-desktop-portal-gnome) is needed for the
> > dark theme in Gnome 44 to work properly.
> > 
> > * gnu/packages/gnome.scm (gnome-essential-extras)[propagated-
> > inputs]: Add xdg-desktop-portal.
> > 
> > Change-Id: Id84626e6bc404e9607ee7f8f299ac90f24323081
> 
> Reviewed-by: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail>
> 
> Haven't tested it myself, but I trust the findings of Dariqq.
The desktop portal seems like a harmless propagation, so I trust your
trust.

Pushed.