Re: Desktop Guide Shading

[SoloCDM <deedsmis aculink net>]

"Kevin D. Knerr, Sr." wrote:
> 
> 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

As a follow-up, where is the documentation?

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