[Update] 2016-04-26 - Cinnamon 3.0, Pamac, Gnome 3.20, KDE, Virtualbox

[Finrod]

@Finrod: Excellent. I improved the first post by formatting one line in bold-red 

and for some reason this morning Plank too autostarted, so everything's fine here now

[ninsa]

Good update and not a single problem here. I installed the Vertex-Maia theme before the update, and I like it even better than Menda. Also, with the new theme a few problems have vanished. So for example, my firefox toolbar now looks much more organized, as it used to. The huge space around the icons is gone.

All in all, great job done, and thank you very much devs!

[aguador]

I have still only updated one machine. Before updating more, I have two questions:

• If we do NOT want to update to GTK3 3.20 until theme authors/maintainers have had a chance to (once again!) change their themes, is it possible just to block updates to the GTK3 package for the time being . . . or are there more packages affected (e.g., gtk3mm) . . . and/or is this too big a can of worms to open?
• As a clarification, is Menda being killed off, er, retired, or will it continue to be maintained even though Vertex is the new default?

A note regarding Vertex: There is no highlight bar on the menu that appears after right clicking on the pamac icon (for me in a stalone tray) although others work properly.

Thanks.

[Photon]

As a clarification, is Menda being killed off, er, retired, or will it continue to be maintained even though Vertex is the new default?

It depends: https://github.com/manjaro/release-plan/issues/43

[aguador]

@Photon: Thanks. If Menda were to slip gently into the night, it might be nice to create some variations on Vertex which has some great windows decorations, but an alternative to the teal would be good and a charcoal/slate version I am sure would be a welcome addition.

For Mediterranean themes users, a bug has been filed on GitHub, but it looks as if help would be appreciated from those with theming experience. See:

https://github.com/rbrito/mediterranean-gtk-themes/issues/46

[oberon]

If we do NOT want to update to GTK3 3.20 until theme authors/maintainers have had a chance to (once again!) change their themes, is it possible just to block updates to the GTK3 package for the time being . . . or are there more packages affected (e.g., gtk3mm) . . . and/or is this too big a can of worms to open?

You can just try that for a while and see what happens. I don't expect it to render your system un-bootable, so the day you encounter problems you can just finally upgrade. But personally of your three options I would expect the last one quite soon ...

As a clarification, is Menda being killed off, er, retired, or will it continue to be maintained even though Vertex is the new default

It will no longer be maintained.

A note regarding Vertex: There is no highlight bar on the menu that appears after right clicking on the pamac icon (for me in a stalone tray) although others work properly.

Hm. In all contexts I have tried sofar with different trays that's not the case. Could you provide a screenshot and tell me what tray exactly you are using? Is that in E20?

[aguador]

Hm. In all contexts I have tried sofar with different trays that's not the case. Could you provide a screenshot and tell me what tray exactly you are using? Is that in E20?

Yes, I encountered this specifically with Vertex-Dark running under E20 using stalonetray for notifications. I am not on my updated machine (and not inclined to deal with a can of worms on this one at the moment), but as I recall there is some virtually imperceptible change in the letters, but no visible bar.

Unfortunately, Vertex under E operates at a disadvantage. The nicest parts of Vertex are the top border decoration and buttons, but they are not recognized by E -- nor does the pamac header come out as compactly/elegantly as shown in the screenshot I have seen. This latter is, I assume, an E-related Vertex issue, while the menu issue seems pamac-specific.

Screenshots to come this evening.

(PS: RIP Menda)

[fassil]

'LLo aguador,

Just for info, Mediterraneannight-theme in unstable works now with enlightenment & gtk3, so...

O_ops, it's not a gtk3 theme, sorry ! 

[elman]

I made my GNOME look quite good with the Vertex theme, I believe I used Vertex Dark. Looks quite good now.

Thanks for the tip. Vertex-Maia looks very nice

[bb80]

After the update, I can't log into the graphic environment:
....
I get the attached error (an image).

I have openbox as default and xfce as backup.

Please help.

same issue here, but i'm running jwm community edition in the virtualbox.  i see several people reported same issue. i've tried everyhting suggested before (reinstalling drivers using mhwd, etc.) and nothing helped. i guess this update does break virtualbox drivers, as my another installation of manjaro i3 on the desktop with nvidia drivers upgraded with no problems...

[Goligoski]

Just registered to say this. Gtk is a piece of ****. My beloved greybird theme is broken (as my working process) for gtk 3 apps. And only three compatible themes (vertex, adwaita and arc) look ugly and too white imho. Can someone provide a link to  the previous gtk package? I cleared cache before update.
P. S. Ok. Vertex looks not so bad. The only issue I have with pa applet icon which has a dark color on a dark panel.

[eugen-b]

Just registered to say this. Gtk is a piece of ****. My beloved greybird theme is broken (as my working process) for gtk 3 apps. And only three compatible themes (vertex, adwaita and arc) look ugly and too white imho. Can someone provide a link to  the previous gtk package? I cleared cache before update.

Search Manjaro Wiki for "downgrade".

[jssilva]

Hello,

Thank you devs for another almost smooth upgrade. My Greybird theme got broken, replaced by Adwaita; ufw lost my configs, applied the advised fix; all is well now.

I love Linux and Manjaro, in that order; the theme is just a detail.

Again, many thanks.
jss

[fredhoud]

Huge, but smooth update on the KDE side on all machines. Also the Dropbox icon is appearing again on computers with Intel, and ATI graphics. Before the update the Dropbox icon only appeared on NVIDIA graphics.
Thanks,

[khalismur]

Again regarding Firefox and themes...
Using now Vertex-Maia works nice but what about the Dark version??

I've read everything in this thread and I found some advice on the web and also on Manjaro forums about the use of Firefox and dark themes.
In the Menda days, I've given up using the dark theme because it broke Firefox. Even with different custom chrome folders I've found around, my Firefox still displayed white text against white background (on startpage.com search results for example). The problem persists....

Should I (we?) really give up trying Firefox + dark themes??? Since you folks are updating the themes and icons, would it not be timing to solve this issue properly?? Jeez, over two years and still all Manjaro dark themes make Firefox strange (startpage.com search results, Manjaro forums and many others are examples of often visited sites that are broken...)

Other than this, the update went good :-)