Re: Desktop Guide Shading

["Kevin D. Knerr, Sr." <kknerrsr ptdprolog net>]

On  4 Oct, SoloCDM wrote:
> 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?

The Gtk(Widget) references occur within a gtkrc file, such as ~/.gtkrc
or within a theme, e.g. ~/.themes/MyTheme/gtk/gtkrc. For system-wide
themes, they can be found as $PREFIX/share/themes/ThemeName/gtk/gtkrc

This should give you a head start . . .

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