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Ambiant-MATE and Radiant-MATE family of themes and icons
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MATE Mouse pointer style unavailable #12

Closed sixwheeledbeast closed 1 year ago

sixwheeledbeast commented 1 year ago

Describe the problem

On fresh installs of Ubuntu-MATE, after installation of the "proper" MATE themes via your PPA (Thank you) MATE version of the mouse pointer is unavailable only the awful Yaru one...

Expected behaviour

"MATE" cursor option available in Appearance > Customise > Pointer Files formally found in /usr/share/icons/mate/cursors Selecting a MATE theme should also automatically have the MATE cursor style.

Affected Themes

Screenshots

Operating System / Environment

Ubuntu-MATE 22.04 LTS

Apologies, if I have posted this issue in the wrong place. I assume it would be an oversight that this isn't pulled in as part of the theme?

lah7 commented 1 year ago

Don't worry, you've reached the right place 👍🏼

index.theme file is correctly specifying to use the mate icon theme:

https://github.com/lah7/Ambiant-MATE/blob/df003b1d815626b7ba4dc78c5fafce9a370148c0/usr/share/themes/Ambiant-MATE/index.theme#L11-L12

However, it turns out that these cursors are part of the mate-icon-theme package, which is no longer pre-installed in Ubuntu MATE. I'll add a dependency on that package, which will fix the problem.

sixwheeledbeast commented 1 year ago

Ah great thanks. That makes sense. 82MB is not too much of an issue but I can understand wanting to keep things light. Would it create an issue or install conflicts having them bundled into the icon theme then installing mate-themes or vice-versa?

lah7 commented 1 year ago

Speedy! I did edit my comment, It looks like it would be simpler to depend on the package. Didn't realise one of the cursors folders is about 32.7 MB on its own.

Then to top it off, ambiant-mate-gtk-themes should depend on ambiant-mate-icon-themes (of which depends on mate-icon-themes) so the complete theme will work as expected out of the box.

lah7 commented 1 year ago

Would it create an issue or install conflicts having them bundled into the icon theme then installing mate-themes or vice-versa?

If we did go that route, the cursors would be added to our Ambiant-MATE (and -Dark) icon themes, so no conflicts, but it would probably waste disk space having duplicates installed.

That could be a plan in future if the MATE icon theme package has a radical change (like redesigned cursors)

lah7 commented 1 year ago

Done! A new package (22.04.2-2) has been dispatched. It'll take some time for Launchpad to publish it. Thanks for spotting!

sixwheeledbeast commented 1 year ago

So I have just upgraded the package but MATE pointers are still unavailable even after a reboot. dpkg shows ambiant-mate-gtk-themes ambiant-mate-icon-themes mate-icon-themes as all installed. /usr/share/icons/mate/cursors doesn't exist if that's helpful.

lah7 commented 1 year ago

You're right, I made a mistake in the dependencies! It's actually mate-themes that provides /usr/share/icons/mate/cursors, which is confusingly stored in the same folder as mate-icon-themes, so I ended up putting the wrong dependency.

Sorry about that, and thanks again for checking! The 22.04.2-3 package will fix for real this time. Checked under a ubuntu-mate-22.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso live session.