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Hello, I consider EOG such a great tool ... to the point that I am still using it as my primary image viewer even though I migrated to KDE some time ago. I always wanted to be able to modify the background color ... when in FULLSCREEN mode (BLACK by default on my laptop). These days I have had some time for gathering information to look for a way to carry it out ... and this is what I have found ... - In 2009 something similar was requested ( Bug 569025 ; https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=569025 ) : At the end of the thread a responsible stated ... “I'd prefer to have this defined in a theme, instead of enforcing this to eog users or adding a preferences for that. You can probably tweak this in gtkrc file. Closing as WONTFIX. Thanks for the report anyway!” The argument seems reasonable ... but ... I didn't lose my faith. I am using 'oxygen-gtk' style for gtk+ apps on KDE ... the practical result of this setup is that widgets, COLORS, typographies on gtk+ apps are virtually identical to qt native ones. Coming back to my original itch ( being able to modify background color of EOG when in fullscreen mode) ... according to the previous comment “I'd prefer to have this defined in a theme” ... all I had to do was to define at KDE theme level the 'background color on fullscreen mode' I wanted ... then 'oxygen-gtk' style would replicate the settings for my EOG install in Kubuntu. But I bumped into an strange KDE bug ... - In 2005 it was requested having the availability to set the background color in fullscreen mode on KDE ( Bug 101634 ; http://bugs.kde.org/101634 ) : In May 2011 a responsible stated ... “Fullscreen mode is designed to be more IMMERSIVE than browse or view mode. This is the reason why the background is HARDCODED TO BLACK.” The bug was closed as (RESOLVED ; WONT FIX) Sincerely ... my personal opinion is that the 'IMMERSIVE' argument is not a good one ... not at all. Now I am STUCK ... at EOG they prefer the background color when in fullscreen to be set at theme level ... and in KDE this level is HARDCODED to black because Fullscreen mode is designed to be more 'IMMERSIVE' . I don't feel brave enough myself for negotiating about 'IMMERSIVE' issues and ... even though I understand EOG initial position is reasonable ... I also consider that having the availability of setting background color when in fullscreen would also be a great feature ... that would make ALL EOG users independent from the desktop environment ... which shouldn't be a bad thing. And my question ... ... is there any chance this additional feature could be implemented so that EOG users outwards GNOME could face things in an less difficult way ? Or at least ... ... anybody knows a way / trick / workaround so that I can customize the background color of EOG when in fullscreen mode ? ... maybe the 'gtkrc' way ????? Thank you. |