gtk1 theme / gnome2 theme preferences

[Chris Chabot <chabotc xs4all nl>]

Hey guys, i'm kinda wondering whats up nowadays with the theme settings 
of gnome2.

First of all, the newer gnome-control-center app crashes when you try to 
start it up.. Making it a manual job trying to switch themes.

Secondly, every time i start my x session, my .gtkrc-1.2-gnome2 file 
(which is new to me) gets overwritten, thus my hacked-in bluecurve theme 
selection is nuked.. revering gtk1 & mozilla back to its default look..

I've written a work-around-script for moz (resets rc file every time i 
start up mozilla) but this hardly seems to be 'the right way' to do 
things ;-)

I'm running a 'clean' rh8 + gnome 2.1.4 (build custom rpm's, no lib 
confusions or old rh8 versions to be found; I did modify the distro so 
it doesnt require qt/kde and gnome-libs1.4 anymore)

Is there a 'clear vision' for the future how this stuff should be 
solved? It would seem silly to require old gtk1/gnome1.4 libs&apps to 
set the theme for those few legacy applications.

	-- Chris