Working around themes

[Mike Oliphant <oliphant ling ed ac uk>]

Themes are driving me crazy! Most of the default themes that come with
Gnome specify a default style the overrides all entries in an
application's gtkrc. Applications generally specify styles in their .rc
file for a reason, and things often look terrible if this is overridden.

In particular, it really seems like "named" widgets (using
gtk_widget_set_name) should not be overridden in this way.

Is there any way I can keep a theme from messing up the look of my
applications?


Thanks,

Mike