Re: Legacy apps and themes

[Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com>]

Ross Burton <ross burtonini com> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I've been a long-time fan of grdb, so my xemacs matches my GTK+ theme
> (albeit gtk1).  However, with X4.3, grdb crashes :(
> 
> So last night I got the source of grdb out, and did a quick port to GTK+
> 2.  Obviously I can't get the XLFD names from the GTK+ theme any more,
> so I set a sane default and use a GConf key.  I still need to do a nice
> UI for all this, but should all this be in gnome-control-center?
> 
> If the core "read the theme and set X resources" code were in the
> settings daemon, everyone would at least have nice coloured legacy apps,
> and by setting the gconf key either manually or with a UI[1] matching
> fonts too.

I'd love this feature in the settings daemon.  I don't think we need a
UI at all for it.  Rather, I'd like to see it just silently match your
other colors to the current selected theme.

Thanks,
-Jonathan