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chtis

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From: Vienna

Registered: 2014-10-20

Posts: 7

Design of file-roller and evince

Hello Archers,

I'm using Arch Linux for three months now and I'm very satisfied. But I was very surprised when I opened evince yesterday (after a system upgrade I think) and it looked completely different. The same had happened to file-roller.

I really don't want this "new" design.I googled "file-roller/evince new design" and similar things, but I have found nothing...
Can I simply change some setting or do I have to recompile an older version of these programs?

ajbibb

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Registered: 2012-02-12

Posts: 142

Re: Design of file-roller and evince

Both those packages require gtk3, and on 10/16 the adwaita-icon-theme package that is required by gtk3 was updated.  Perhaps that is what you are seeing.

I saw the icon theme go by when I updated over the weekend, but I haven't opened any of my gtk3 applications since then to see what they look like (and I'm not on my Linux machine at the moment).

ANOKNUSA

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Registered: 2010-10-22

Posts: 2,141

Re: Design of file-roller and evince

Search the forums. GNOME and GTK3 were recently updated. This was an upstream design choice.

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teateawhy

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From: GER

Registered: 2012-03-05

Posts: 1,138

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Re: Design of file-roller and evince

Your best bet is to change to different programs, there are many alternatives available that don't use gtk3.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Li … aphical_10
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Li … aphical_13

Last edited by teateawhy (2014-10-20 15:39:36)

ooo

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Registered: 2013-04-10

Posts: 1,638

Re: Design of file-roller and evince

I don't think there was much of a difference in design between 3.12 and 3.14, at least with evince.

Are you sure you aren't just using a theme that hasn't been updated for 3.14, or something else isn't configured right.
At least make sure the issue persists with the default Adwaita themes, if you're using something else.

If you can post a screenshot of the broken design, that could be helpful.

chtis

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From: Vienna

Registered: 2014-10-20

Posts: 7

Re: Design of file-roller and evince

Thank you for your quick replies. I checked if the applications look that strange with other themes and found that they look better with other gtk themes (no oversized buttons, window decoration etc anymore).
I'm still not pleased with the gtk3 design, though. I will consider switching to other programs. Thx!

Last edited by chtis (2014-10-21 10:53:05)