Dark theme breaks some GTK 2 apps

[vitalkanev]

Expected Behavior

It should look like as wanted

Light theme screenshot

I think padding issue is actually known

Actual Behavior

Theme broken - press here for screenshot

Steps to Reproduce the Problem

1. Install and open any gtk 2.0 app - audacious is a great example
2. Switch to dark theme (Recommended using Tweaks app)

Specifications

$ git describe
18.10.4-9-gfe6a55f4
$ lsb_release -a # Just in case
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS
Release:	18.04
Codename:	bionic

Software that presents the issue:

• Name: Audacious
• Version: 3.9

[Feichtmeier]

You have build it from source right?

[vitalkanev]

Yup четверг, 13 сентября 2018г., 21:09 +03:00 от Feichtmeier notifications@github.com :

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[Feichtmeier]

The dark gtk2 is simply not there yet =)
This is all quiet new and we didnt even announce it yet.
That's why yaru-dark is not in the .deb theme in cosmic and not in the communitheme snap yet.

Until then meson will produce the yaru-dark but as you noticed, the dark gtk2 is not there yet =)

Thanks for reporting, closing this since it is not unexpected. Keep up reporting issues

[chrisjbillington]

I just upgraded to Ubuntu 18.10, and the option to select "yaru-dark" is there in gnome-tweaks, resulting in the above for gtk2 apps.

Is is possible to make gtk2 apps continue to use the light theme, even if the dark theme is selected in gnome-tweaks, until the gtk2 dark theme is ready? (like, just aliasing the gtk2 dark theme to point to the gtk2 light theme?) Since the option is there in gnome-tweaks in Ubuntu 18.10, people are going to use it, resulting in a few apps looking pretty ugly.

[godlyranchdressing]

@chrisjbillington You could make a symbolic link or just copy and paste the gtk-2.0 folder from regular Yaru into the dark variant's folder. The symbolic link option would be

cd /usr/share/themes/Yaru && sudo ln -s -r gtk-2.0/ ../Yaru-dark

Or you can pull from the PR that the dark GTK2 theme is being (actively) worked on:

#852 (comment)