On 23 June 2015 at 16:22, Nigel Verity wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm so impressed with Ubuntu MATE that I've finally abandoned Xubuntu as
> my go-to distribution. The MATE desktop has tools for tailoring the colours
> so you have a high level of control over its appearance. However some
> objects, such as certain toolbars, seem immune to these tools. I've been
> told to try gnome-color-chooser which I have installed. Unfortunately I am
> struggling to find how to use it.
>
> It is not really intuitive, and the only links to supposed documentation
> I've found are all dead or misleading.
>
> Does anybody have any experience with this tool and/or can point me
> towards some kind of user guide?
>
>
>
You will need the HTML colour value from Gnome Colour Chooser, that's the
string like #FF that the chooser displays for a selected colour.
However, it's not easy to find all the colour settings in MATE (as with GTK
in general) so it can rather be trial and error. That or people who make
GTK themes are a lot more patient than I am.
s/
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