Re: [Evolution] changing the appearance of evolution by editing gtkrc

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

Don't you think that this theme editor would be better suited as a
general purpose gtk theme editor and hence NOT an evolution feature
request? :-)

you should request this on one of the GNOME or gtk lists, not here.

Jeff

On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 02:03, Luke (Terry) Vanderfluit wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There is only one way to influence the appearance of evolution and that
> is through editing gtkrc manually.
> It would be great if there was a utility that did this.
>
> for example I use the Ocean-Dream theme which is a derivative of the
> 'LighthouseBlue' theme.
> this can be edited in /usr/share/themes/LighthouseBlue/gtk-2.0/gtkrc,
>
> in that file editing the several colors for 'base' 'text' and 'bg' gives
> you some control over the environment.
> I had to open 'gnome-control-center' / 'themes' and toggle the theme to
> see the changes,
>
> now I've got evolution looking how I want it.
>
> kind regards,
> Luke