On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Stroller
<strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On 31 July 2011, at 00:56, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
>> ...
>> I got x11-themes/gtk-engines:3 from the gnome overlay installed so GTK 3
>> engines are there. My problem is I don't know how to set a global theme
>> for GTK 3 (and the default is dead ugly). If it is file
>> ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini then I haven't got that to work, yet.
>>
>> What's your recipe to select GTK 3 themes?
>> Any quality links or guidance would be great.
>
> There's some discussion of theming and ugliness in GTK3 in Nikos' bug 374057.
>
> This really isn't my manor (so please forgive me if I'm mistaken) but you
> might find, e.g., comment 38 useful.
>
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=374057#c38
>
> There's mention of using the Adwaita theme and placing a symlink which
> appears to be required to get GTK3 to honour your theme selection.
>
> I'm just surprised no-one else more knowledgable than I has answered yet.
>
>
>
Hi Sebastian
I ran across this but did not try it yet;
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=116652
I bet nirbheek would know :)
All the best,
David
