Filemanager no longer using the choosen theme

DASK

I updated my laptop last night and the nautilus file manager is no longer using the correct chosen theme.

Under Budgie Desktop Settings if I change the Widgets theme only the dock bar changes and nautilus has this fixed default theme. Has anyone else had this issue. Is it a new bug ?

EbonJaeger

This is sadly intentional by GNOME. Nautilus now uses libadwaita, which forces the application to use Adwaita.

DASK

Is it possible to switch to another file manager that uses the system theme which is as good. It seems yet another backward step for Gnome. Maybe the Solus team will consider finding a new default file manager for the Budgie Desktop. I am sure we could switch to something lightweight like Nemo or Thunar

DASK

Just installed caja file manager from the mate desktop and that has now become the default, which was surprising, and that does honor the chosen theme. I guess it is a work around.

hdansin

I installed the latest Fluent-gtk theme from github and my nautilus looks fine: https://github.com/vinceliuice/Fluent-gtk-theme

Steps:

Clone or download the repository
Open folder in terminal (go into folder in files, right click, open in terminal)
type ./install.sh

elusian

hdansin
Fluent as far as I can tell links itself inside .config/gtk4, which means that the act of installing has changed your theme, not selecting it in the settings.
Still, good to know that this workaround exists

DASK

The fonts, icons and text in the new nautilus also look kind of fuzzy compared to caja and the old nautilus. I hope this is not here to stay. Might have to switch to a new desktop completely.

bigrammy

Very washed out look not a fan of this sadly. Anyone know how to set it to dark version instead of this light version? The Budgie menu seems to have zero effect on the file manager.

Staudey

bigrammy See this thread for some infos about this issue: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/8888-important-issues-with-latest-update-gnome-budgie-gtk-apps

bigrammy

Staudey Many Thanks!
Starting gnome-control-center using Terminal, then choosing Appearance and Dark worked for what I wanted. I really hope you can get the Gradiance app integrated.
Thanks to all the solus dev's