Unable to apply theme to Gnome Terminal in Fedora 26 about gnome-terminal HOT 8 CLOSED

I was able to reproduce it on a fresh install (virtualbox) of Fedora 26 and Ubuntu 17.10. I think the actual problem is a bug in dconf. This expression in the theme checks if the path /org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/ contains any existing profiles. By default there are two keys called default and list as defined in org.gnome.Terminal.gschema.xml. Strangely the command dconf list /org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/ returns nothing:

As soon as a new profile is created the command prints the correct path keys:

If the newly created profile gets deleted again the command suddenly prints the correct path keys:

I think this should be reported to the appropriate bug tracker for dconf and/or the GNOME Terminal.

The error where is complains about the missing gconftool command is caused due to the failing expression described above and the script tries to use the fallback for old versions that used gconf as data storage backend.

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I've reported #789056 to the official GNOME bug tracker for the dconf component.

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Late for the feedback - but the rewrite worked fine on a stock vanilla Gnome install on Arch without ever having touched anything in profiles.

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Thanks for your report 👍

I'll set up a Fedora 26 virtual box to see what's broken again with these annoying different dependencies on all these distros... 😄

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I'm confirming that the same issue happens on a clean install of Artful. (after the gconf2 package was installed)

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This issue will be fixed in #13.

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The PR #14 includes a fix for this problem. It should now work on all distributions when the basic dependencies are installed. The legacy support for GNOME Terminal versions < 3.8 has been removed since the gconf long-time support for in most distributions will end this year anyway, next to the fact that there are no distributions that ship with GNOME < 3.8.

The compatibility with dconf has been improved by using the high-level API of GSettings instead.

It be nice for some feedback so this can be merged as soon as possible.

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@azmodude Great, nice to hear that! Thanks for the feedback 👍

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