Auto-connect and greedy plug behaviour for for icon-theme-breeze and gtk-theme-breeze snaps

[scarlettmoore]

As per suggested in KDE: global auto-connect qt-common-themes - #20 by jamesh I need:

• allow any snap to auto-connect to the gtk-theme-breeze snap gtk-2-themes and gtk-3-themes slots.
• allow any snap to auto-connect to the icon-theme-breeze snap icons-themes slot.
• update the declaration for gtk-theme-breeze snap to allow greedy connection to its gtk-2-themes and gtk-3-themes slots.
• update the declaration for icon-theme-breeze snap to allow greedy connection to its icon-themes slot.

This is also needed for automatic theme installation in Kubuntu. Thanks for your consideration.

[jamesh]

Getting these snap declarations updated would also be useful in letting us publish the new version of gtk-common-themes:

Call for testing: gtk-common-themes (October 2024 update)

We’re preparing a new gtk-common-themes release, and I would appreciate some testing feedback from anyone interested. The new release can be tested by running the following command: sudo snap refresh --candidate gtk-common-themes and you can switch back to the regular release by running: sudo snap refresh --stable gtk-common-themes I don’t expect there to be many problems, but it’s been a long time since we last pushed a release, and the snap has been updated to build with modern Snapcraft …

The candidate release we’ve got in testing drops the Breeze theme, so allowing the replacement snaps to auto-connect and coexist is important to letting us promote the release to stable.

[jamesh]

@review-team: has anyone had a chance to look at this? Getting this sorted would help in getting the new gtk-common-themes snap release promoted to stable (since it drops the Breeze themes).

The desired snap declaration would be similar to what was granted for the MATE theme snaps. Namely:

1. for gtk-theme-breeze:

   slots:
     content:
       allow-auto-connection:
         -
           plug-attributes:
             content: $SLOT(content)
           slot-attributes:
             content: gtk-3-themes
           slots-per-plug: *
         -
           plug-attributes:
             content: $SLOT(content)
           slot-attributes:
             content: gtk-2-themes
           slots-per-plug: *
   

2. for icon-theme-breeze:

   slots:
     content:
       allow-auto-connection:
         -
           plug-attributes:
             content: $SLOT(content)
           slot-attributes:
             content: icon-themes
           slots-per-plug: *
   

The aim being to allow application snaps requiring theme data to connect to these snaps in parallel with the gtk-common-themes snap.

[pfsmorigo]

+1 from me for granting autoconnect for the both snaps following the same criteria used for MATE theme snaps. @jamesh is this request urgent or can wait for other reviewers to manifest?

[jslarraz]

Hey @scarlettmoore @jamesh

Sorry for the big delay in the response. +1 also from me for granting global auto-connection to gtk-theme-breeze and icon-theme-breeze snaps with greedy connection. This is now live.

Please let me know if everything works as expected