Re: Lack of borders around menus, widgets, windows, panels, etc.

[Grant Edwards <grant b edwards gmail com>]

On 2015-07-17, Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com> wrote:
> On 16 July 2015 at 02:34, Grant Edwards <grant b edwards gmail com> wrote:
> > After a recent upgrade (probably from 1.x to 3.x) I noticed that there
> > are now no borders around windows/panels, popup/dropdown menus,
> > scrollbars, etc.
> >
> > For examples, see
> >
> >  http://www.panix.com/~grante/foo.png
> >  http://www.panix.com/~grante/bar.png
> >
> > At first I thought I would get used to it, but there are still
> > situations where I find it visually confusing.
> >
> > Is there any way to get those borders back?
>
> The lack of borders on the pop-ups (and windows/panels/scrollbars I
> assume) look like a theme issue to me.

Does that mean they don't look like that for other people?

> I'm sure we don't touch any
> styling around that. The upgrade from 1.x to 3.x included going from
> GTK+ 2 to GTK+ 3, so I'd be looking at that as a likely change.

The odd thing is that none of other GTK apps on my machine look like
that.  I downloaded the PyGTK demos and ran all of them, and none of
them look like meld with the borderless white-on-white menus and
widgets.  I've tried changing themes and meld still looks the same.

I'm stumped.

--
Grant