On 15 Apr 2001, Ettore Perazzoli wrote:
Hi,
> On 14 Apr 2001 11:43:22 +0500, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> > In most cases, the "always black" problem is due to not calling
> > "gtk_widget_ensure_style(widget)" before making modifications to copy
> > of widget's GtkStyle.
> >
> > It would be nice if all Ximian's and Eazel's products were tested with
> > non-standard gtk themes such as SatinBlack to ensure that they are gtk
> > theme-friendly.
>
> I agree we should fix these problems. We are interested in being
> theme friendly as much as you are. :-)
:)
> One issue I have had in the past with theme engines is that they often
> hardcode things in a non-friendly way, by doing things like
>
> if (GTK_IS_ENTRY (widget))
> use_this_color();
> else
> use_this_other_color();
>
> This messes up all of our custom widgets in an unfixable way.
Hmm, then for reliability a plain theme (that doesn't use any theme engines)
should be written that uses very dark color for background of everything and
white for text color. All theme-unfriendly code will be easiliy detected with
it. And better stick huge font size for that theme too - all naive code that
hardcodes size of windows (as it was in Nautilus) and uses non-standard font
for no reason also will be catchable with it.
It would be nice if this theme could be uploaded to developer.gnome.org and
advertised as theme-friendliness testsuite.
I can cook up such theme if you wish.
> Anyway, I am not sure if it's the case with this theme. I am going to
> submit this stuff into Bugzilla right now... Of course we accept
> patches too. :-)
Sorry, I don't have time to hack on this.. But it's all trivial to fix, at
least GAL and color of text in selected item in the message list.
Also remember: when printing, Evolution uses *text color from gtk theme* and
color user specified for quoted text as color to print text with - so when
printing I'm getting WHITE or yellow text on WHITE paper. This nonsense should
be fixed - controls for selecting color of normal text and quoted text for
printing should be available to the user.
After all this gets fixed, Evolution will be theme friendly.
> --
> Ettore
>
Best regards,
-Vlad
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