Re: Set the background color in GTK1

[M Santhoff t-online de (Marc Santhoff)]

Am Di, den 20.04.2004 schrieb Chris Manning um 09:46:
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> :up! What's 
> :going on out there that people need to set the colour of their widgets 
> :to something other than what the user wants?
>
> The reason I would do it is that the default themes that come with any
> operating system are usually crap. Oh look, another shade of grey or beige,
> or hey, why not pumpkin yellow or a bad combination of green and purple for
> the wacky-at-heart. 
>
> <.rant>
> Sorry, I'm sick of these themes, and most users wouldn't know how to go
> about finding different themes either (or, like me, they can't be bothered -
> it's an incredible waste of time). So, why not inflict my own colour scheme
> on users, the way other programmers inflict awful themes on me. An eye for
> an eye, baby. It's all fine and proper and egalitarian to say that the user
> should be able to change their own schemes, but usually, they don't. As far
> as I'm concerned, a cohesive colour scheme is part of any good design.
> Leaving anything up to the user usually results in an ugly mess ;).
> <./rant>

Don't forget to give your users a chance to change it, some need to
(think abut people with handicaps). If you're not careful your program
wil be unusable for them.

Marc