Sam Varshavchik writes:
Ed Greshko writes:
>
> I suppose the obvious first question is does "rpm -qa | grep adwaita"
> produce the same results on both systems?
Yup, both the F35 XFCE Live install, and the updated laptops, show the same:
$ rpm -qa | grep adwaita
adwaita-cursor-theme-41.0-1.fc35.noarch
adwaita-icon-theme-41.0-1.fc35.noarch
adwaita-gtk2-theme-3.28-13.fc35.x86_64
The themes do, overall, have other issues. All of my F35 seats have a bunch
of themes labeled "Xfce-something". Actually about thirty or so
"xfce"
themes. All of them seem to be a no-go. Switching to any of them makes parts
of the xfce panel mostly disappear or have an indiscernible color scheme.
And all the "xfce" themes makes scroll-bars disappear. I am not talking the
annoying auto-minimization of scroll-bars that some UI "expert" invented, a
few years ago. They're completely gone. There's no way to scroll the list
widgets! If you manage to scroll the list of themes, in the "Appearance"
dialog so that only the xfce ones are shown, click on one of them, the only
way to restore sanity is to hit pg-up a few times until the first theme
(Adwaita, incidentally) gets restored. Then you get the original "peek-a-
boo!" GTK scrollbars restored.
But I'm mostly wondering how Adwaita gives a negative color scheme on a new
F35 install. Maybe there's a "dark theme" global setting somewhere that
Adwaita is using.
It was indeed something like that. This Scooby-Doo mystery was a separate
knob in the "Panel" section of Settings. There, under the "Appearance"
tab
there was a "Dark mode" knob. It was enabled by default, in a new F35
install. There was absolutely no way to know it's there unless you go and
look for it.
And it was, apparently, effective for some, but not all themes. For Adwaita
it fiddled its appearance. For other themes it did not. And there was a
separate, discrete, "Adwaita-dark" theme that did its own thing.
Clear as mud.