[Users] icon theme configurator not working with dconf-gsettings-backend ?

[Michael]

Paul,

I didn't make myself clear. The updates were regarding tons of other packages, not claws. 

> This is all very strange - Claws Mail has no dependence on anything Gnome.

That's good to hear since i can't use Gnome anymore, because they introduced a dependency to systemd :)  

When Debian made systemd the new default (by 2:3 vote...!) it went in without knocking, and i had the delightful opportunity to study it a little bit, while repairing the mess it left. With the result that i refuse it by heart, in amazing emotional way. The main problem is that to me it's aggressive subjugation (they call it streamlining) of other packages removes any choice and is against the principles of free software. It grab so much of the essential base system (including udev and acpid) into their own project. And only 2 developers, conducting ? It also was hard to find out how to configure it as freely as i am used to. If this is 'intuitive' then it's not my kind of intuition.
Well, at least for now i could revert to sysvinit. But i can't use Gnome apps anymore.
Well it doesn't really hurt :)

About claws, it seemed to me there was a problem with the theme configurator working together with 'dconf' which seems to be a preferred (lightweigth?) alternative for gconf. OTOH gconf package says it's the newer one.
 
What happened is, i 'experimentally' tried to clean my system not only from 'systemd' but also from any systemd libraries, and while i was at it, also from anything 'avahi' (which i also never liked, by concept, and guess what, it's from the same developer) and this deinstalled most of gnome related apps, and broke some other dependencies. I was able to resolve it but afterward, quite some libraries were changed. I'm not sure if there was 'dconf' from the beginning, or any 'conf' at all, but my theme was working until the last package actions.

My system does not represent a 'default' Debian testing anymore so someone else may check their packages.