Re: [gtk-list] theme support

[Havoc Pennington <rhpennin midway uchicago edu>]

On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Ullrich Hafner wrote:
> 
> does anybody know how applications should implement theme support in
> GTK+1.1.5? The documentation at themes.org tells me to include a call
> gtk_rc_parse (FILENAME) in my application. Then the user can replace
> the file FILENAME with his favorite gtkrc file. However, it will be a
> painful task to replace all these files of all the GTK+ applications
> installed so far ... Is there a global RC file like /etc/gtkrc or
> $HOME/.gtkrc that should be read in by applications?
> 

All Gnome applications read a ~/.gnome/gtkrc, and a ~/.gnome/appnamerc,
plus systemwide equivalents in /installprefix/share, so one solution is to
use Gnome. :-)

Havoc