Re: A few oddities in the panel

[Andrew Clausen <clausen alphalink com au>]

The Rasterman wrote:

> On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Marcus Brubaker wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 15 Nov 1998 raster@redhat.com wrote:
> >
> > > the panel changing bg is a panel issue. definitely - the arrows - not
> > > sure but It probably is a panel issue too. Themes makes it a lot
> > > stricter for apps - they cannot asume ANYTHIGN - colr, fotn,
> > > bacckground.. infact the panel was always broken as such.. themes just
> > > brings it out more. hint for programmer.s. NEVER assume solid
> > > backgroudn.. NEVER assume gray.. never assume font size or anything..
> > > cause a user may just go change this on you..themes simply makes it
> > > easy and packages it up for users to do.. :)
> >
> > Alright, this kinda leads into something that I've been wondering about
> > for the last while.  How can I tell if a setting has been explicitly set
> > by a theme or by an app sepecific rc file?  I thought it would have to do
> > something with gtk_widget_get_style() but I haven't had any luck.
>
> the rc file DETERMINES the theme - the app shudl be extremely careful
> abotu setting anythgn in a style - currently there is no way to knwo what
> is a syle comes form user settngs but you should assume EVERYTHING in the
> style is a user setting unless your app overrides it explcitly - and this
> should only be doen for a very very very good reason.

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ndArwe Clsenau