Help with understanding the css for gnome shell, for the purpose of creating themes... ...

[dan <techno-mole ntlworld com>]

Hello to the Gnome Shell developers.

Firstly I'd like to say what an interesting project, I've been using GS 
for a week or 2, it's pretty good, even for the early stages, keep up 
the good work, I know a lot of people are liking it as well.

My issue isn't a problems as such, but I have been looking at creating 
themes for GS and how to go about enabling users to actually install 
them, but for now I'm trying to understand the various aspects of the 
style sheets etc, in order to customize themes for it.
How ever I have run into a few small problems, I'm pretty good with css 
(I have taken a couple of Open University courses that dealt with css 
and the like, my java script sucks though) I have been trying to change 
the colouring of the overview mode and that's when I first had a small 
problem.

Basically I haven't as yet managed to figure out how to change the 
colouring of the text in the search field (The word "Find") which has 
thrown up some small problems with colour schemes, mainly not being able 
to see the word to know theres something there, the other thing is where 
abouts would I find the code that controls the colouring of the recent 
items section ? at the moment the text shows up as whiteish, which at 
present is okay as the main colour scheme is grey, but this morning I 
was experimenting with lighter colours and found that I couldn't see the 
text in the recent items section, is there a way this can be changed as 
well ?

I would appreciate it if there is a couple of minutes spare if some one 
could e-mail me back with the information, if that's okay, and allowed.


Many thanks.

Dan.

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