Ubuntu – Hope-DT GTK+ theme displays white fonts after upgrade to 12.04

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I have recently upgraded from 11.10 to 12.04. On Ocelot I was using the Hope theme tip to install it: give-your-linux-desktop-new-hope-with-this-gtk3-theme

I especially liked the fact that it turned the Sidebar in Nautilus black, which I found pretty cool.
After the upgrade, all my system fonts are white when I set the GTK+ theme to Hope or Hope-DT. See pic:

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Now, is there any way to force the fonts colour? or, if nothing else works, could you guys suggest a way to turn the Sidebar in Nautilus to black? Any nice dark gtk+ theme suggestions are also welcome.

cheers.

Edit:

From the Hope theme page I see that in the comments more people are complaining about this issue after upgrading. So, my question now is: any way to control the system font colours? Or please suggest a them which adds black sidebars in nautilus.

Edit 2:

I have installed the .deb file from launchpad: hope precise

Unfortunately it did not solve the problem, however, now my Ambience theme is gone…. I can't even find it in /usr/share/themes. And now my entire desktop looks a bit crap. Menus don't seem right.

Can I install the default Ambience theme from somewhere?

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Kelley gave the answer in a comment that I will post as definitive:

After upgrading to 12.04, I ran into the same problem with a couple of my old themes. They needed to be upgraded to (I think) in order to work properly with Gnome 3.4. I went to the creator's website and found a version for Ubuntu 12.04, and it has worked perfectly. This might be what you need to do, too. If you access the Launchpad page for it (launchpad), I think you'll find a version for precise.

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Different users can have different settings

The root /1/ has own settings. You could change the root's settings by starting the System Settings with the command:

kdesudo systemsettings

Root's gtk apps

As default the root's folder doesn't have the link to the oxygen-gtk.

To fix this you need to copy the hidden file .gtkrc-2.0-kde4 (note the dot !) from your home directory to the /root/ with name .gtkrc-2.0 (note the dot !) /2/, /3/.

Command line:

sudo cp .gtkrc-2.0-kde4 /root/.gtkrc-2.0

If you have the Root Actions Servicemenu /4/ installed you could use it to copy and rename.

System's default mouse theme (KDM cursor)

The Debian and the Debian based are using the alternatives /5/ to set the environmental variables.

:~$ man update-alternatives /6/
NAME
       update-alternatives - maintain symbolic links determining default commands

SYNOPSIS
       update-alternatives [options] command

DESCRIPTION
       update-alternatives  creates,  removes,  maintains  and  displays   
       information about the symbolic links comprising the Debian alternatives       
       system.

       It is possible for several programs fulfilling the same or similar functions 
       to be installed on a single system at the same  time.

To set the cursor theme with the alternatives command line:

sudo update-alternatives --config x-cursor-theme

With KDE gui:

Package: kalternatives /7/ - graphical alternatives system configuration tool

More: Change system default X11 cursor theme /8/.

Sometimes

Quote: "Sometimes, in KDE applications under my ordinary user, fonts spontaneously change to Ubuntu font - why this happens and how can I avoid it?"

Yes, I have noticed this. Why - beats me. The Kubuntu is resetting to the default Kubuntu settings (/usr/share/kubuntu-default-settings/kde4-profile/default/share/config/)

To fix this i have edited the Kubuntu defaults: /usr/share/kubuntu-default-settings/kde4-profile/default/share/config/kdeglobals.

Default Kubuntu kdeglobals has:

[General]
BrowserApplication[$e]=!rekonq
XftHintStyle=hintmedium
font=Ubuntu,9,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0
menuFont=Ubuntu,9,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0
desktopFont=Ubuntu,9,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0
toolBarFont=Ubuntu,8,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0
smallestReadableFont=Ubuntu,8,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0
taskbarFont=Ubuntu,9,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0

Looking my own kdeglobals: ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals and copying them to the defaults. Here:

[General]
BrowserApplication[$e]=!rekonq
XftHintStyle=hintmedium
font=Sans Serif,9,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0
menuFont=Sans Serif,9,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0
desktopFont=Sans Serif,9,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0
toolBarFont=Sans Serif,8,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0
smallestReadableFont=Sans Serif,8,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0
taskbarFont=Sans Serif,9,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0

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These are the ones that need to be edited:

/usr/share/{theme}/gtk-2.0/gtkrc

~/.themes/{theme}/gtk-2.0/gtkrc

change it to:

text_color:#000000
bg_color:#ffffff

is the code for black text and white boxes I am using Equinox Evolution Midnight on Sabayon linux with openbox and lxappearance does not change the colour of the white text on black text boxes or white text on white background in firefox (also libreoffice had reversed colours, yuck)

I hope someone spends less time figuring this out because of this answer.

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