mtwebster
commented
1 year ago There were already multiple places that new themes get installed if necessary -
It happens:
- Any time a new flatpak is installed via Mintinstall.
- By mintupdate when installing updates
It was also getting done during automatic flatpak updates, but I've just changed that so it occurs at startup even if updates are disabled: https://github.com/linuxmint/mintupdate/commit/bc290709bc0dcbf8cf9b81fee56f58db24d9dba1
With all of that in place, I don't think this issue rises to the level of needing to bother the user about it also.
By default flatpak themes are not installed [as I understand mintupdate checks the current theme and downloads the corresponding one when installing an app in this format]. People using flatpaks may have problems with the interface of the apps [window borders, colors, etc] as switching accents or to a dark theme usually breaks the theme of the apps.
Maybe mintreport can show a message in 'system reports' that allows to install flatpak themes [as it happens when language packages are missing].
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