GTK THEME HOW TO
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GTK THEME HOW TO

Multiline comments are also possible with the C like /*В */.ДЄ small example follows, that shows how to create very a basic theme. The file format is case- sensitive comments are marked with a # (hash). The GTK theme lives inside the gtkrc file. An important part of theming GTK+ is to find one or multiple engines on which to base the theme. There are many different engines out there, some providing a lot of possibilities, some a very fixed look. Without any engine, GTK uses a very basic theme, that offers only a very boring look (the Raleigh theme does not use an engine). These options however are engine specific, and if you learned them for one Engine, you will still have to learn the options, other engines provide. So, you will usually define a base style with all common options in it, and then change colors for a specific widget.ДЄs said above engines provide you with many interesting styling options. The interesting part about the GTK theming system is that different styles are merged to create the final one. These engine styles are, where most of the theming options are possible. On the other hand, there are the theming possibilities the engines define. On the one hand there is a limited set of predefined style-properties of the GTK+ theming system, which define things like the width of the scrollbar. Within these styles you have two kinds of properties. Hence this hierarchy - found at - is important when applying styles and we will come back to it later on.Д®verything you want to change is being changed in so called 'styles'. For example, properties of GtkButton will also be applied to GtkCheckButton unless it is explicitly stated otherwise. Furthermore many other widgets have 'parent widgets'. This means, changes to the properties of GtkWidget will effect all widgets. Each of these widgets can be themed separately.Д®very widget is derived from GtkWidget. GTK has a large set of widgets like buttons, scroll bars and edit boxes. Your GNOME installation undoubtedly came with quite a few themes. Note that if themes of the same name are installed in both the public and the ~/.themes directories that GNOME will use the one in ~/.themes.ДЄ good way to learn theming is to examine other people's themes.

Within this gtk-2.0 directory you will place all files that go with your theme. A convenient place to put the themes you create are in ~/.themes/YOUR_THEME_NAME/gtk-2.0/. Themes generally live in either a public directory (available to all users, typically in /usr/share/themes/) or in ~/.themes/ (just for you). You can find more GTK themes in the resources linked from. Other people's themes can be very helpful. Some knowledge of the GTK+2 API can be helpful with more complicated themes documentation can be found at. This tutorial will explain the basics of creating a GTK+2 theme for use with GNOME 2.2 and above.

This will only be useful in very rare cases (maybe for keybinding stuff, which is not the topic of this page). Locale-specific gtkrcs ( will, for example, be parsed in German locales).

How theme engines are used see comment in the section.

Need information about icon size handling and a list of icon sizes in GNOME (see also Redmond gtkrc that sets numerous icon sizes).

See for a list of properties that can be set (not all of them make sense from the gtkrc). The GtkSettings properties are not mentioned here. Inheritance, i.e., styleВ 'button'В =В 'default', but this is usually not necessary because of merging, and needs a warning, as it doesn't work correctly for engine options as far as is known. GnomePanel /GtkButton /GtkCheckButton /GtkColorButton /GtkCombo /GtkComboBox /GtkComboBoењЋntry /GtkEntry /GtkFrame /GtkList /GtkMenu /GtkMenuBar /GtkMenuItem /GtkNotebook /GtkProgressBar /GtkRadioButton /GtkScale /GtkScrollbar /GtkScrolledWindow /GtkSpinButton /GtkStatusbar /GtkTreeView /Pidgin /StyleProperties /SymbolicColors /Workarounds If you have any comments, please write me an e-mail ( or come to #gnome-art on.

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