Re: How to set 1.4 theme from 2.0 desktop

[Rodney Dawes <dobey free fr>]

In RH 8.0 there are patches to the relevant packages to set the theme
for both Gtk 1.2 and Gtk 2.0 apps to be the same, if themes for both
exist. If the same theme does not exist for both, it defaults to
Raleigh for GTK 1.2.

-- dobey

On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 21:54, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 21:30, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote:
> > Yes. I would like to use a GTK1 app but the theme settings are for
> > GTK2/Gnome2. So it does not pickup any of the settings. I would like it
> > to. 
> > 
> > I tried gnome-control-panel and it (well on RH 8.0 anyways) it
> > startedup Nautilus and brought up the Gnome2 control interfaces (for
> > font, etc.).
> > 
> > I am going to try and modify the ~/.gtkrc by hand and see if that
> > works.
> 
> Yes, that works, although you have to restart any gtk1 apps afterwards. 
> In debian, there is a gtk-theme-switcher (I think that's the package)
> that has a little dialog to select the theme, and auto-apply it.
> 
> > 
> > -Dinesh 
> > 
> > 
> > --- Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com> wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 19:38, Paul wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 19:40, Alan wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 02:36:12PM -0700, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote:
> > > > > > Hi:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > How does one set the Gnome 1.4 themes so that applications
> > > written for
> > > > > > version 1.4 can still use font settings etc. from within a
> > > version 2.0
> > > > > > desktop?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Just run 'gnomecc' (assuming it's installed) and set the theme
> > > there.
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > I think Dinesh is referring to GTK 1 vs GTK 2 themes.
> > > > 
> > > > For instance Galeon doesn't use the same themes that the rest of
> > > Gnome 2
> > > > uses. For some reason, when changing the theme via gcc, Galeon only
> > > > obeys a select few themes.
> > > 
> > > "gcc" ?  I hope you mean gnome-control-center... ~,^
> > > 
> > > Seeing as how are going to be quite a few popular GTK1 apps remaining
> > > for a while (notably Evolution, and GNUCash), would a "Legacy Widget
> > > Theme" in the theme capplet be a good idea?
> > > 
> > > Also, for things like proxy-settings and such, having the current
> > > control-center be able to modify gnome1.4-style settings may be an
> > > idea;
> > > perhaps have an --enable-legacy-settings support for the core
> > > capplets... ?
> > > 
> > > There are just too many popular GTK1/gnome1 apps that aren't going to
> > > be
> > > ported anytime soon...
>