Re: Using a gtk-2.0 theme

["William L. Thomson Jr." <support obsidian-studios com>]

Scott,
        So did you use and RPM or compile from source?
I am looking for the new versions of gtk-engines from a mirror. Did you
just get a generic one or one for redhat?

On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 17:52, Scott Barron wrote:
> > I am still using gnome 1.4 I think. I know I am not using 2.0, so 
> > assume I can only have one gtk-engines installed. I further assume that
> > the version I have installed needs to work with my current env.
> > I currently am using gtk-engines-0.11-10 part of the RedHat 7.3 distro.
> >
> > So would the newer gtk-engines be backwards compatible?
> >
> > Meaning if I install a newer version, will it break other dependencies,
> > or work fine?
>
> As far as I can tell gtk-engines has relatively little to do with gnome
> other than perhaps gnome depends on it.  I've got a RH 7.3 that has a
> gtk-engines 0.11-10 or whatever it came with installed and I installed
> the latest ones from source and all is working OK.  I think they are
> sufficiently different enough that it won't cause any problems if they
> are both installed.  I believe they have different installation
> directories like $prefix/lib/gtk-2.0.  Someone will certainly chime in
> if I'm lying, but I don't think I am :)
>
> Good luck,
> -Scott
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