Hello Kai, On 27/04/13 14:04 +1000, Kai Willadsen wrote: > On 23 April 2013 05:29, Jan Pokorný <[email protected]> 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 _______________________________________________ meld-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/meld-list
