Open Bug 1823086 Opened 2 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Default title bar theming overrides distro-specific theming in Ubuntu 23.04's flavors

Categories

(Core :: Widget: Gtk, enhancement)

Product:
Core
Component:
Widget: Gtk
Version:
Firefox 111
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

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Status:
UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: arraybolt3, Unassigned)

Details

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Boot up the latest daily ISO of Lubuntu Lunar or Kubuntu Lunar in a virtual machine. (Ubuntu development release daily images can be downloaded from http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/441/builds)
  2. Launch KCalc.
  3. Launch Firefox.

Actual results:

The title bar's theming does not match with the theming of other application title bars (like KCalc), which looks out-of-place. I can right-click the title bar and click "Customize toolbar...", then check the "Title Bar" checkbox in the lower-left corner of the screen, and the title bar theming changes to match other apps.

Expected results:

Firefox's title bar theming should preferably match that of other apps by default.

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Widget: Gtk' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Component: Untriaged → Widget: Gtk
Product: Firefox → Core

Do you have a screenshot?

Flags: needinfo?(arraybolt3)

At a glance, the default Firefox in there uses snap, which for some reason uses the orange yaru theme. A mozilla build from https://nightly.mozilla.org uses regular Adwaita which is what other GTK apps use there. So this seems an issue with the snap or the snap configuration on that flavor.

I reported it in Ubuntu and another developer said they thought it was due to Firefox's default configuration, and therefore wasn't a bug in the Snap packaging. Could be wrong though. I'll try and get screenshots real quick.

Screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/g6OuuO3

Flags: needinfo?(arraybolt3)

So there are two things that are different:

  • System titlebar is hidden: That's by design, you can go to right click -> Customize Toolbar ... and uncheck Titlebar to get the older behavior, see bug 1812289.
  • Selection color etc is different to other GTK3 apps (try apt install gedit for example). That's on the Snap config afaict.

That makes sense. My personal opinion is that it looks better when the apps on the system mostly follow the same look and feel by default. That's how things were until recently, and I at least was hoping that our users wouldn't have to change it themselves.

But that's just an opinion, thus why I marked it as a request for enhancement. If that's not the direction things are going, that's fine. I'll try and tale it back downstream, and worst case scenario we'll just release note it.

Thanks for your help!

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