Re: Troublesome background of Text widget

[Paul Barton-Davis <pbd Op Net>]

>> unless, of course, you happen to be using a pixmap theme, in which
>> case its whatever the damn pixmap engine decides its going to be
>> regardless of other style settings.
>> 
>> i know, i should file a bug report.
>
>Why? Is that a bug? Sounds like a feature to me.

Assertion: GTK has a default "theme" that is used when you specify nothing.

* If I don't specify a theme, and I don't use a GTK rc file, I get the
     default theme color.
* If I don't specify a theme, and I do use a GTK rc file, I get the color
     from the rc file.
* If I specify a theme, and I don't use a GTK rc file, I get the theme default.

All of these behaviours seem correct to me.

So, the question is: what should happen when I specify a theme *and* a GTK
rc file ?

In reality, the answer gets divided in two:

   * with a non-pixmap theme, the rc file, because it is loaded
     subsequent to the theme and merely re-specifies the same things
     as the theme specification, overrides the theme default.

   * with a pixmap theme, the rc file is ignored (well, for some things
     such as the `base' display of a text entry)

I believe that the rc file should override the default action of the
theme, always.

Do you disagree ?

--p