I've created the wiki page at https://live.gnome.org/Meld/DarkThemes
with a dark theme example.
It actually works quite nicely. Being able to change the current line
highlight would be nice as well.
color["current-line-highlight"] = "#111100"
does not appear to have any effect?
Cheers,
--
Louis
On 29 April 2013 22:47, Jan Pokorný <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
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