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[Koivisto <527014@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I can confirm this is still an issue using today's daily build of
Oneiric, however this issue is still not with Ubuntu rather it is with a
GNOME tool.

Steps I took beforehand:
I downloaded the current daily build of oneiric-desktop-amd64.
Installed Oneiric on a new virtual machine in VirtualBox.
Updated it fully.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Go to /usr/share/themes/ and copy a theme folder to a name with an ampersand (I used Radiance which I named Ray&Dance).
2. Open the .desktop file (Radiance.desktop in my case) and edit all the occurrences of the name to include the ampersand.
3. Install gnome-tweak-tool (sudo apt-get gnome-tweak-tool).
4. Select "Theme" from the listbox.
5. Click the dropdown menu for either "Window theme" or "GTK+ theme".
6. Notice there is a duplicate of another theme in the list rather than your new theme.

So, rather than being a bug in Oneiric where the themes I created in
/usr/share/themes/ would not even show up in the Appearance menu (like a
lot of the other themes that come with GNOME 3 by default); this is a
bug in the gnome-tweak-tool which - I believe - doesn't even come with
Oneiric at the moment.

Also it is worth noting again that I am using a daily build - which is
quite buggy. However, due to the fact that the bug acts just like before
and that the bug exists in a GNOME tool rather than in Ubuntu I do not
believe a bug in the daily build to be the cause.

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Title:
  Themes with ampersands do not show up in appearance preferences

Status in GNOME Control Center:
  Incomplete
Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

  Themes with ampersands (the & sign) do not show up in the Theme tab of
  Appearance Preferences.

  Steps to reproduce:
  1. Right click your desktop, click on Change Desktop Background.
  2. Go to the Theme tab.
  3. Modify a theme so you can save it.
  4. Save it with a name like "Test&Theme" (without quotes).
  5. There's no new entry in the list of themes, but the file and folder were created in the ~/.themes/ directory.

  I also closed and re-opened the Appearance Preferences dialog, to make sure it didn't need to be restarted, I copied the folder and renamed both the folder and file to "Test" (without quotes) and it showed up in the theme list when I re-opened the Appearance Preferences dialog.
  After this I attempted to create a new theme without ampersands, and everything worked as expected; the theme showed up in the list after entering a name and no description and clicking Save.

  Update:
  If you have another theme in your ~/.themes/ directory with a name that alphabetically comes before your new theme, your new theme with the ampersand in it will take on that themes name, and you will have two entries with the same name.

  For example:
  1. You only have the theme ABC in your themes directory, and save a theme with the name B&C.
  2. You now have two themes named ABC.

  This does not happen if the only theme before it also has & in the
  name, then neither theme shows up.

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Feb 24 13:50:53 2010
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-appearance-properties
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
  Package: gnome-control-center 1:2.28.1-0ubuntu1
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-19.56-generic
  SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-19-generic x86_64

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