List also local themes in lxqt-config-appearance

[stefonarch]

Confronting gtk-conf with "appearance" I noticed that the first lists and applies also themes in ~/.themes` directory.

Expected Behavior

Also local themes should be available in the dialog.

Current Behavior

Only installed themes are listed.

• Distribution & Version: all

[isf63]

I can confirm that ~/.local/share/themes/<foo> GTK themes are detected but not ~/.themes/<foo>.

Personally I've never used ~/.themes/ but it seems to be a GTK standard.

[tsujan]

This seems to me like an inconsistency in GTK. GNOME devs drop things as important as desktop icons or system tray but keep deprecated config places.

[stefonarch]

I made a search "install gtk themes manually" and the first 2 links (from 2021/24) say something like

GNOME GTK themes should be installed in the ~/.themes directory inside your home directory

Same for ~/.icons.... deprecated too afaik.

[tsujan]

Same for ~/.icons.... deprecated too afaik.

Yes, such things should go into $XDG_DATA_DIRS. We shouldn't support "GNOME standard" vs. "standard", although GNOME devs may not care.

[isf63]

Can we use ~/.local/share/icons/default/index.theme instead of ~/.icons/default/index.theme in Appearance settings? (Hoping, to clean up the home folder)

[arisumag]

Sorry to necrobump but I'm having a similar issue where lxqt-config-appearance can't detect any locally installed themes in the .themes folder
It can see .local/share/themes. But what's strange is that it can still see icons from .icons and the default setting is placed in that folder.
and I swear I remember setting themes from .themes in it too. Not too sure why it stopped working. all I have in the dotfile is

[General]
ControlGTKThemeEnabled=true
__userfile__=true
size=@Size(691 479)

Wondering if this is expected behaviour or not.
Thank you.