[Evolution] Re: trying to develop a theme..

[Chris <lists forevermore net>]

ok, I've figured some of this out (like the fact that evolution uses the
text[] things for the themes), but am running into issues that I now
believe are actually problems with evolution (or gtk)

anyway, in my default style, I have the following entry:

        text[NORMAL]      = "#C3C3C9"   #Text color

it works well enough, producing some grey text that's ever so slightly
bluish.  evolution displays it just fine (as do other programs when I
use fg[NORMAL] with the same value).  However, when I use this color,
the "email headers" portion of message goes completely black (or
something very close - it's somewhat hard to tell).  After playing
around a bit, I tried other values, like 0000FF and 00FFFF, both of
which generated a light grey box instead of black.  but the instant that
the red field is set to anything above 0F, that box goes black.  I've
tested with a wide range of values, from 000000, 0F0000 and 100000 (the
last of which results in a black box) to any number of other values for
green and blue..  but it seems to be that only the red settings make a
difference.  None of the other values (bg[], base[], etc) seem to make a
difference here, either.

anyway, just thought I'd point it out in case it really is a bug.

-Chris


On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 11:47, Chris wrote:
> I finaly got sick of non-compliance in the dark-shaded themes I've been
> using, and decided to design my own.  However, it seems that evolution
> doesn't use the standard widget names (or widgets, for that matter) in
> any of its views (I'm a bit new to theme design, so maybe I'm just not
> familiar with things)...   does anyone know which widgets evolution uses
> for things like:
>
> the folder list tree
> the email list
> the font color in both of these
>
> I've tried GtkText, GtkList, GtkTree, GtkTreeItem, GtkListItem and
> GtkCList, but none of them seem to affect evo's colors.  The fonts are
> even stranger, since evo uses black text when I have NO black text
> defined anywhere in the theme (really annoying since the theme is so
> dark - it needs light text to be readable)
>
> I've also noticed that the text area (the thing I'm typing this message
> into right now) doesn't seem to be a GTKText..
>
> these are obviously SOME kind of widget, as they do grab the default
> colors (which are inappropriate and WAY too dark for these lists if evo
> insists on using black fonts)
>
> -Chris