Re: Custom colors via ~/.gtkrc-2.0

[Louis des Landes <louis obsidian com au>]

I've created the wiki page at https://live.gnome.org/Meld/DarkThemes
with a dark theme example.

It actually works quite nicely. Being able to change the current line highlight would be nice as well. 

    color["current-line-highlight"] = "#111100"

does not appear to have any effect?

Cheers,

--

Louis

On 29 April 2013 22:47, Jan Pokorný <jpokorny redhat com> wrote:

Hello Kai,

On 27/04/13 14:04 +1000, Kai Willadsen wrote:
> On 23 April 2013 05:29, Jan Pokorný <jpokorny redhat com> wrote:

>> this is a (sort of) follow up to Changing conflict colors in gtk-3
>> theme topic [1].
>>
>> My problem is similar to what the original poster stated.  Color
>> settings for meld in .gtkrc-2.0 in home dir is not taken into account
>> because application-owned configuration (/usr/share/meld/gtkrc in my
>> case) always takes a precendence no matter how I set the priority in
>> .gtkrc-2.0 [*].  However, when I remove that global configuration
>> file, .gtkrc-2.0 settings are suddenly honored.
>>
>> This might be a GTK 2+ (or its Python binding) bug or not, however
>> semantics as presented in [2] seems to prove the former.  Is this user
>> override working properly for anybody without a need to remove app's
>> gtkrc first?
>>
>> I am using gtk2 package at version 2.24.16 (LXDE desktop).  Having
>> GTK_DEBUG=all in environment haven't shed any light into this; trying
>> explicit GTK{2,}_RC_FILES=${HOME}/.gtkrc-2.0 brought no change
>> whatsoever.
>
> My instructions apparently missed a step (because I didn't realise it
> was required): you also need to change the name of the style itself
> for this to work. For example, this is the ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file I've been
> using for testing:
>
> style "meld-color-scheme-user"
> {
>     color["replace-bg"] = "#ff0000"
> }
> widget "meldapp.*" style : highest "meld-color-scheme-user"

thanks, works like a charm.  Had no clue gtkrc parser does not allow name
redefinitions and couldn't imagine the solution will be as simple.

> As an aside, I'd love it if someone who actually used this (I don't)
> wanted to write up details on how to customise Meld's colours on
> live.gnome.org, and maybe provide some sample configurations for
> popular dark themes.

I volunteer to do it eventually.  Will post a follow up to this
thread, then.

>> As a side question, it looks like default font color (beside
>> highlighted sections) cannot be changed.  Or can it?
>> If not, it would be really helpful because font color that is
>> OK on default background may be unreadable in let's say addition
>> bubble.
>
> It can't currently, no. I'd be okay with adding this, but every time I
> touch themeing issues, they end up being more complicated than I'd
> like. For example, we may need to add support for setting text and
> background colour for normal (i.e., matching) sections. Anyway, I've
> got many other things on my plate, so I'm not likely to get back to
> theme stuff again any time soon. If someone wants to look at this, I'd
> be happy to provide what assistance I can.

That wiki thing first, then we'll see.

Thanks for your feedback.

--
Jan

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