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Hey guys!
I've used Bunsen, and CrunchBang before it, for some time. However, it just doesn't have the look and feel that I'm looking for anymore. There are features of it that I love, like the pipe menus on right clicking, but I really want to explore my desktop options for my main PC.
Bunsen and Cruchbang seem to stick very close to default Debian, and I'd like to move to default Debian so I can upgrade to Stretch and get the main packages. The artwork is fine, but ideally I'd like to be able to update from Jessie without totally breaking my system.
Any advice on how to do so?
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Remove the bunsen-themes package, then change your sources to stretch (maybe remove the bunsen file(s) in sources.list.d).
A dist-upgrade is unlikely to "totally break" your system ATM - the main issue is the gtk.
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The safer option would be just to install Stretch from scratch. I highly recommend using the network install option.
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@damo what risk comes from GTK and what can I do about it?
@KrunchTime you're definitely right, I'd just really like to avoid re-installing and having to reconfigure sound, proprietary stuff, and my desktop.
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@damo what risk comes from GTK and what can I do about it?
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I already said - remove the bunsen-themes package. The old themes are broken with the newer gtk, so all that will happen is that the themes won't run, and your system will use the fallback (Raleigh) theme. I'm not sure if this will also remove theme engines, but they are easy enough to reinstall.
There may be other problems, but this is the one I know about.
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more precisely:
the problems are with gtk3, which tends to break itself with every minor version change.
and gtk3's default theme (builtin!) is Adwaita nowadays (stretch too?).
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the problems are with gtk3, which tends to break itself with every minor version change.
Well, the real "problem" is that the upstream GNOME developers work very hard indeed to improve and update their toolkit and the non-GNOME theme developers have trouble keeping up.
gtk3's default theme (builtin!) is Adwaita nowadays (stretch too?).
Yes.
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