Re: Pixmaps in gtk

["Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm redhat com>]

Joel Dillon writes:
>  What I'm getting at here is that while you can have a specific button
>us a pixmap in an app, you van't have all radiobuttons, say, use your
>user-defined pixmap (preferably specified in something like a .Xdefaults
>file )

Uh, take a look at the .gtkrc file.

# style <name> [= <name>]
# {
#   <option>
# }
# widget_class <widget_class_set> style <style_name>

Part of a style definition can be color and pixmap.

>  Agreed. There are times when you don;t want them (like X over a
>network). But what I'm getting at is that people (i.e. end users) should
>be able to switch the look-and-feel of all GTK apps to some different
>set of pixmaps should they so wish.

gtkrc.  You can change colors, fonts, pixmaps, etc.

>The reason for this is that the default GTK look is quite ugly...

I don't agree, but that's beside the point.

michaelkjohnson

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