Re: Themable colors

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 18:04 +0400, Nickolay V. Shmyrev wrote:

> > - We want to be able to write a simple "color setting" control. How does
> > that work ? Is there a Setting containing a palette, ie essentially a
> > map from color names to rgb triplets ? 
> 
> Currently there is no way to edit theme, why palette should be editable?
> It can be adjusted from user gtkrc files as now background can be
> adjusted. Proper color settings could be hard-coded by theme author, but
> it would be hard for user to 
> quickly select palette that looks well with the user's theme. 

The palette should be editable, because it is a frequent complaint that
there is no user-friendly way to change the colors of themes. Look at
the various color variations of BlueCurve to see that using rc files to
override theme colors is not user-friendly... 

Matthias