Re: [patch] making the applet stetic.

[Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com>]

Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> writes:

> 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.

That problem will affect the progress bar too, though.  And it looked
like you removed the subclasses already.  Is this still an issue?

Thanks,
-Jonathan