Re: gtk+3 and the user's homedir .gtkrc-3.0

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

On Thu, 10 Mar 2011, John Lumby wrote:

> The gtk3 reference on resource files,
>  gtk+-3.0.2/docs/reference/gtk/html/gtk3-Resource-Files.html,states
> that,  although deprecated,      "certain files will be read at
> the end of gtk_init().        Unless modified, the files looked
> for will be      <SYSCONFDIR>/gtk-2.0/gtkrc and .gtkrc-3.0 in
> the users home directory."

> My experience with the ~/.gtkrc-3.0 file when running my
> application compiled against gtk+-3.0.2is that it has no effect
> at all.

That is my experience too. It seems that all code pertaining to
the old GTK style-handling mechanism is not just "deprecated", it
has turned into a silent no-op.

Allin Cottrell