Re: The theme of GTK+ 3.13.3 seems not right

[LRN <lrn1986 gmail com>]

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On 03.07.2014 8:40, qlb1234 wrote:
> Dear ladies and gentlemen,
>
> Recently I've migrated my GTK+ programs from 3.13.2 to 3.13.3. And this
> is what it looks like. I'm showing you gtk3-demo.exe.
>
> This is what 3.13.3 looks like.
>
>
> And this is what 3.13.2 looks like.
Next time please attach images as files, or upload them somewhere and link
here. Not everyone reads messages in HTML.

> Yes. I'm using Windows XP 32-bit.​ My question is, how can I keep programs
> compiled and linked with 3.13.3, look as pretty as 3.13.2?
>
> I also noticed that the default theme of 3.13.3 has changed to Adwaita. 
> Does this has anything to do with the theme? Is it because of my OS is 
> Windows and I don't have the theme Adwaita installed?

My guess (without looking at the screenshots) is that you've witnessed the
difference between Adwaita (the new default theme everywhere) and gtk-win32
(the old default theme on Windows).

You can force GTK to use a different theme by settings GTK_THEME=gtk-win32
environment variable or by adding

[Settings]
gtk-theme-name=gtk-win32

to (root)/etc/gtk-3.0/settings.ini

Note, however, that gtk-win32 theme was broken along the way. Currently most
widgets have 0 padding (which makes them kind of small-ish).
Also, one of the releases (3.13.5, i think, or somewhere around) lacks the
gtk-win32 theme (someone forgot to add it to the EXTRA_DIST). This was fixed
in master.

> I've managed to make && make install adwaita-icon-theme-3.13.3 and
> gnome-themes-standard-3.13.3. After installation, I created a folder named
> "share" alongside to my GTK+ program, and copied /share/themes and 
> /share/icons into it. When I run my program, it remains the same. Did I
> have the wrong packages installed, or a wrong way to solve it?

Maybe you need to rebuild icon cache?
Like this:
(root)/bin/gtk-update-icon-cache-3.0 -f -t (root)/share/icons/hicolor
(root)/bin/gtk-update-icon-cache-3.0 -f -t (root)/share/icons/gnome
(root)/bin/gtk-update-icon-cache-3.0 -f -t (root)/share/icons/Adwaita

And don't forget to update immodules and glib schemas.
Also, you may need gnome-icon-theme-symbolic (beside gnome-icon-theme). I'm
not sure how many icon themes are required these days. And you'll need
librsvg with a gdk-pixbuf loader for svg files (otherwise you won't see
symbolic icons).


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