Re: [patch] making the applet stetic.

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 13:37 -0400, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> Robert Love <rml novell com> writes:
> There are a couple of other issues that you listed:
> 
> > 	- Follows the system theme.  The current Gtkcellrender thing
> > 	  is not correctly themed.
> 
> I'm not 100% sure what you mean by this?  Do you mean that it doesn't
> honor theme changes?  Or is it getting some things wrong.

The problem here was that the initial menu items were subclasses of the
GtkMenuItem and therefore, when the theme changed, they didn't pick up
the new GtkStyle due to inherent gtkrc (subclasses have a different
style path/name or whatever which means they don't match anything in the
gtkrc).  See:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142417

The workarounds suggested by Owen either aren't sufficient or were just
plain ugly, since theme writers need to modify their theme rc files to
support what we are trying to do with the subclasses of GtkMenuItem.
Which sucks.

Dan