Re: GTK_RC_FILES

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com> writes:

> Owen wrote:
> 
> > Tim and I discussed adding
> > 
> > if version >= 2.0
> > 
> > endif
> > 
> > type stuff to .gtkrc at some point in the 2.x series. Which would
> > solve the problem for GTK+-3.0. But the only way that any RC file
> > parsing change would help the situation here would be to do something
> > like ignore RC files that don't have
> > 
> >  rc_version 2.0
> > 
> > Which is clearly not an option at this point; I'm not going to break
> > things for everybody who has a ~/.gtkrc-2.0 or has written a GTK+-2.0
> > theme.
> 
> Isn't it going to create breakage anyway?  At least from the
> perspective that a new environment variable has to be set, this is
> already API change.  It's not clear to me that adding a line to 
> GTK+-2.0 themes (how many can there be really, at this point?)
> is worse than having to change environment variable names.

Lots of people have created ~/.gtkrc-2.0 files. I really doubt a
significant number of people are setting GTK_RC_FILES.

Regards,
                                        Owen