Ok, last night was a horrible Free computing experience.

I was meditating/stretching listening to some much from my laptop hooked up to my big 24" monitor. The album ended and I wanted just another 30 minutes so I unlocked the screen.

My music player of choice, gmusicbroser, doesn't have themes (most apps don't) and was blaring at me in almost all white.

I quickly started looking for a dark gtk3 theme.

Theme 1: Came in a deb and depended on some other obvious packages. Good thing. Installed and it caused a complete meltdown of GNOME; no apps would open and after a minute or so gnome-shell just died. [Solution: TTY1, sudo apt-get remove it, reboot]

Theme 2: Previous theme was from 2011, so let's go to gnome-look.org and sort by recent activity. Good, found one. That one, however, would kill nautilus (file browser) if I tried to open a second tab in it. Removed.

Theme 3: This one seemed to be working pretty well, until I wanted to go to bed and asked my computer to suspend. Somehow a fucking theme was preventing my laptop from suspending.

Seriously, has the world given up on dark themes? Do we not care about our user's eyes at night?