Re: [Cooker] Re: [Bug 1967] [galaxy-gnome] No way to get the Color

2003-02-21 Thread Craig Drummond
Hi, In reply to Frederic Crozat, I'd like to know why the folowing is WRONG??? 1/ is WRONG by design.. a GTK (or any other toolkit BTW) theme should never be adapted to detect which colors the current desktop (whatever desktop environment) is running.. I don't care if ONE theme (Geramik) is

RE: Re: [Cooker] Re: [Bug 1967] [galaxy-gnome] No way to get the Color

2003-02-21 Thread Craig Drummond
Forgot to send this to th elist... I already explain it is up to the DESKTOP environment to adapt theme, not the reverse... Geramik approach is wrong by design.. It is fixing the consequences of KDE not customizing GTK theme colors.. The best approach is to fix root of the problem (ie KDE not

RE: Re: [Cooker] Re: [Bug 1967] [galaxy-gnome] No way to get the Color

2003-02-21 Thread Craig Drummond
>> No, I think that it is based on the most customization possible point of view. >> The reason that it seems to be KDE centric is because it *has* the ability to >> be customizable.>>About customizations, I suggest you read Havoc article : >>http://www106.pair.com/rhp/free-software-ui.htmlWell

RE: Re: [Cooker] Re: [Bug 1967] [galaxy-gnome] No way to get the Color

2003-02-21 Thread Craig Drummond
>>I think I made my point very clear.. It is a "bug" in Kcontrol.. There is"bug" in KControl, I think not! KControl does already export some colour settings -via ~/.gtkrc-kde. Perhaps Galaxy could be modified to read/use this? I'm not a GTKexpert - and I'll gladly admit that Geramik and QtCurve

[Cooker] Xft DPI setting...

2003-02-21 Thread Craig Drummond
I'm not sure if this applies to Cooker, but it does to mandrake 9.0: Why is the Xft dpi setting hard-coded to 90dpi in /etc/X11/Xresources and /etc/X11/xdm/Xresource? This causes fonts to have a different size between GTK1 and GTK2 apps. i.e. specifying a font of 12pts will use the X res (usually