Re: Desktop Guide Shading

[SoloCDM <deedsmis aculink net>]

Elliot Lee wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Kevin D. Knerr, Sr. wrote:
> 
> > On  2 Oct, SoloCDM wrote:
> > > Why I don't know, having a grid over the current viewport area within
> > > a desk-guide doesn't work presently.  How can the shading be changed
> > > (on or off) manually and how can the intensity (darker, lighter,
> > > medium) be changed?
> >
> > IMHO, some of the relationships between the various GTK widgets are
> > documented a bit poorly. (For example, it turns out that the foreground
> > colors for the GtkMenuShell class are governed by the GtkLabel
> > class--the upshot being that you can't tweak menu text colors without
> > impacting every other text color in the theme.)
> 
> An explanation:
> 
>         Things like GtkButton & GtkMenuItems are just generic containers that
>         can hold any other type of widget. The most common case is of
>         course for them to hold labels, but they can also hold things
>         like pixmaps, check boxes, and other random widgets. The text
>         color therefore has to be set on the label widget, while the
>         background has to be set on the menu item that holds that label.
> 
>         (GtkMenuShell is the parent class of GtkMenu and GtkMenuBar, which
>         both act as containers, usually for GtkMenuItems).

Are all the gtk references referring to file lines/labels within a
file; if so, would someone list the filenames needing the intended
editing?

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