Re: GTK themes on windows

[Carlo Agrusti <carlo-ag libero it>]

Deekshit M ha scritto lo scorso 19/06/2005 20:17:
> Hi all,
>    I wanted to know how do I add a theme to the
> windows application, that I am am developing on
> windows. I could see that, when I change the theme
> using theme-selector applictaion, the theme for the
> GTK-demos get changed. But not for my application. 
> So,
> 1) How to make these thinsg work for my application ?
> 2) How to apply the themes available at art.gnome.org
> to my application on windows
You need 2 different things:
- the theme
- the theme engine

All theme engines are located (i.e. you have to put them) into your 
%COMMONFILES%\GTK\2.0\lib\Gtk-2.0\2.x.0\engines directory; they are 
.dlls (you can compile them by yourself or just find ready to use).
Themes are located into your %COMMONFILES%\GTK\2.0\share\themes 
directory; each theme is made off a directory tree with the upmost 
directory named as the theme itself and containing all needed resources.
Theme selection mechanism for *all* gtk applications running on your 
system is fairly simple: just put into your home directory (something 
like C:\Documents and Settings\your_user_name) a file containing the 
following line:
include "C:/Programmi/File 
Comuni/GTK/2.0/share/themes/dark_outworld/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"
(in this case the theme is "Dark Outworld")
and name it .gtkrc-2.0

Of course, gtk applications that parse their own theme will not be 
affected by your global theme setting.
Cheers,
Carlo