Re: Newbie question: GTK styles and themes

[Paul Davis <pbd op net>]

>What is the difference between GTK styles and themes?

a style is a description of some specific aspects of one or more
widget's appearance: what color should its foreground be when its
active, etc. you tell a specific widget, or class of widgets, to use a
specific style using a GTK RC file.

a theme is a mechanism that defines the way certain elements of *all*
widgets are drawn. it controls how lines, boxes, arrows, slider bars,
focus highlighting and so forth are drawn.

--p