Re: Themes

[Matthew Walton <mxw00u cs nott ac uk>]

Rogério wrote:

> Hello friends,
>
> I am using Ximian GNOME 1.4, however, I am with the following doubts:
> Can I use themes that were created for Ximian Gnome 1.2.x?
> In the case I already tried to install some themes that were done for the
> 1.2x (of http://gtk.themes.org /), and I installed for GNOME Center of
> Control (in the item Selector of Themes) , and he has only been altering the
> buttons and snowballing bars, the title bar for instance continues as
> pattern.
GNOME themes don't depend upon what version of GNOME you're using, but 
rather what version of GTK+ you're using. Since GNOME 1.2 and GNOME 1.4 
both use GTK+ 1.2, the same GTK+ themes will work for both of them and 
their point releases.

The reason your titlebars don't change is that GTK+ themes from 
gtk.themes.org only theme the GTK+ widgets - i.e. the contents of the 
windows of applications written using GTK+ (which is all GNOME apps, 
plus a fair few others like the GIMP). To change the titlebars you'll 
need to find a new theme for your window manager, which is in all 
likelihood the excellent Sawfish. These can be found on 
sawfish.themes.org, although that's in a bit of a state since themes.org 
was hacked into. Should be sorted out soon with the new site though...
Sawfish theme configuration can be found in the GNOME control center 
under "Sawfish Window Manager -> Appearance". A few ship with it, but 
not all of them are very interesting.

Yes, I know it's not exactly logical to do things that way, especially 
if you're used to the Windows way of looking at the desktop, but I 
believe some sort of workaround might be being looked at because it came 
up as a fairly major point in the Sun useability study. I'm no authority 
on this, though...

HTH,

Matt Walton