Re: gtk themes

[Vlad Harchev <hvv hippo ru>]

On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, David Eduardo Gomez Noguera wrote:

> On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> 
> >  I also suffer from this very much since I prefer dark gtk themes.
> >
> >  As for tooltips, add the following to your ~/.gtkrc
> > ------------------
> > style "gtk-tooltips-style" {
> > #put any style definitions for tooltips, e.g.
> >   text[NORMAL] = "#ffffc0"
> >   fg[NORMAL] = "#ffffc0"
> > }
> > widget "gtk-tooltips" style "gtk-tooltips-style"
> >
> > -----------------
> >  it it should be OK. But don't forget to ask theme author to do the
> > same.
> >
> >  As for email client and ICU and other apps - report your problems to authors
> > or prepare to hack the code yourself. I have the same strategy :(
> >
> >  Best regards,
> >   -Vlad
> >
> Tank you so much. That fixed it. Can every widget type has an entry on a
> gtkrc configuration file? If so, maybe the other thing is a widget setting
> too.

 In most cases colors are hardcoded (e.g. black is used unconditionally
for drawing text). So, changing .gtkrc won't help at all.

> About the configuration files, is ther info on the Manual?

 On the syntax of gtkrc files, you can find some info here:
	http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/gtk/gtk-resource-files.html

> Thank you so much.
> 
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 Best regards,
  -Vlad