Re: GTK theme/legacy applications

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

"Lee J . Moore" <mlist strictlybritish com> writes:

> I've been trying to get to the bottom of this issue with a few people on
> Gnome-List over the past few days, but to no avail.  I'm trying to find
> out whether it's a RH7.2 Gnome issue.
> 
> In versions of Gnome that I've used previously (those shipping with
> RH7.0,RH7.1 and Ximian Gnome 1.4 on a Red Hat 7.1 box), there has been a
> setting in the Theme Selector Capplet which allows you to apply the GTK
> theme to legacy applciations.
> 
> In the Gnome 1.4 which ships with RH7.2, this is now missing.  Somebody
> on the Gnome-List posted a screenshot on the web to jog my memory of
> what it used to look like.  The URL is:
> 
> http://missoula.bigsky.net/shunter/grdb-theme-capplet.jpg
> 
> This is distinctly different to mine(on RH7.2), which can be seen at:
> 
> http://strictlybritish.com/people/lee/themeselector.jpg
> 
> I'm not sure whether I'm doing something rather silly which is
> preventing this option from appearing (like switching between
> beginner/novice/expert options??) but as I said, it seems people on
> another list are as mystified as I am.

grdb has never been shipped as part of Red Hat. You must be remembering
Ximian GNOME.

                                        Owen