Re: GTK themes on windows

[Deekshit M <dmantamp yahoo com>]

Hi,
   I heard a lot about pixmap-engine. Is it a
downloadable engine, or available with standard GTK
package itself.

Thanks
Deekshit M

--- Carlo Agrusti <carlo-ag libero it> wrote:

> 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
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