Re: Custom conflict colors

[daspostloch googlemail com]

Oh, and I forgot that when setting everything to black bg,
the arrows with which to resolve conflicts are not visible
anymore. Can their color be changed?
Thanks, Matt

On 8/24/09, daspostloch googlemail com <daspostloch googlemail com> wrote:
> Thanks, it seems that you are right in that background colors
> can be changed in the single file comparison and foreground
> can't. But even if you do not change the foreground colors,
> could you still load your settings?
> Or is it possible to specify a custom gtk theme path?
> Unfortunately, the foreground is a mid-grey, so it's hard to
> pick different backgrounds for it and still keep everything
> visible.
>
> But I was also talking about the directory comparison
> (forgot to mention). Is there a possibility of changing colors
> for this?
>
>
>
> On 8/21/09, Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com> wrote:
>> 2009/8/21  <daspostloch googlemail com>:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> first, thanks for this great application. Since I converted
>>> to a dark gtk scheme, meld's output is hardly readable
>>> to me.  I found an earlier post on changing colors [1],
>>> yet the gconf keys do not seem to have an effect. Has
>>> something changed since 2006 or am I doing it wrong?
>>> I fire up gconf-editor, navigate to /apps/meld and add
>>> keys for color_conflict_fg, color_delete_fg, color_inline_fg.
>>> Neither plain color names as Pink or rgb values as #ffb100
>>> seem to work, not after restarting meld or after logging out
>>> and back in (both added as strings and without quotes or
>>> something).
>>
>> We actually don't use those foreground colours anywhere except in
>> inline highlighting, iirc. You should be able to change the background
>> colour of conflicts by setting the /apps/meld/color_conflict_bg key -
>> this works for me on current Meld, but the change bars at the side
>> apparently don't use these colours anymore.
>>
>> Kai
>>
>