Re: Skins and Themes in GTK

[Henri Torgemane <henrit yahoo-inc com>]

One of the cool things about GTK is that you can change the appearance of
your application without having to write new code.

> From my understanding, there's 2 level of appearance customization:
- setting styles in a resource file, either the default .gtk.rc or a custom
one your application loads.
    This is good enough for mapping texture, and changing colors and fonts,
but that won't change the shape of a widget (i.e. your checkbox won't become
round if it was square)
- use a theme engine. This is a separate piece of code GTK can load
dynamically if you ask it to in your resource file, that can customize
widgets way more that by messing with styles.
    I haven't used that option myself yet, so I don't know precisely what is
and what isn't possible with that approach.

Related Links:
http://www.gtk.org/tutorial/ch-gtkrcfiles.html
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/gtk/gtk-resource-files.html
http://gtk.themes.org/


Hope that helps,
Henri


Dpetrini genius org br wrote:

> Hello,
>
> This is my very first message in this list.
> I was asked to manage great changes in some applications written in GTK,
> using Linux.
>
> The point is that I have to change an application to have a new and
> different skin, or theme if you prefer.
> So that I have to make substancial modifications in the code and I wonder
> the definitions of the primitives of  GTK.
> I looked the GTK sources and found the definifinitions of widget and gtk
> windget. They sounded little confusing and I´m
> looking for some documentation because I felt a lack of them in GTK.org
> site.
> Has anybody a suggestion on sources of docs ore good books in GTK at these
> low level of the library?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Daniel Petrini
> Genius INstitute of Technology
> Manaus - AM
> Brasil
> Tel. +55 92 614 6570
> Cel. +55 92 9123 8532
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