Gtk2 themes with evolution and xmms

Princess Firefly · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Apr 2002 Posts: 80

I just installed a fresh new gnome2 system from the 1.4 cd. Most things are great.

Gtk2 themes work good for most apps but now and then there are those that don't seem to use the theme I have selected but seem to be using a clunky default-looking theme instead. The two most noticeable cases are evolution and xmms (when loading files).

I'm not sure if that is because maybe they don't support gtk2 yet and maybe somehow they're still using gtk1 (although I didn't think that was installed on my system)... if that's the case then how to I change their theme so it matches everything else.

using: xfree 4.2.1, gnome 2, evolution 1.0.8-r1, xmms 1.2.7-r12

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mglauche · Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2002 10:54 pm Post subject:

evolution and xmms use gtk1, try looking for a similar matching gtk1 theme .. a good way for this is the redhat-artwork package, it has a quite good useability themes for gtk,gtk2 and qt ...

tyler · Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2002 10:55 pm Post subject:

from xmms.org

Princess Firefly · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Apr 2002 Posts: 80

Thanks for the info...

In case anyone else has this problem, I couldn't figure out how to change the gtk1 theme so I emerged the old version of gtk-theme-switch.. There's probably an easier way but I couldn't find one. Here's how:

cd /usr/portage/x11-themes/gtk-theme-switch
emerge gtk-theme-switch-1.0.1.ebuild

then to run it:
switch

Hopefully someday they support gtk2.
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tyler · Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2002 4:14 pm Post subject:

so you have switch and switch2 running?

i guess it's not a big deal to have to maintain the theme for gtk1 and gtk2.

Arker · Apprentice Joined: 10 Sep 2002 Posts: 205

I think I may be missing something else... When I run switch, I can change the themes and preview etc, but they pretty much all look exaclt the same. I know this is not a property of gtk1 because I've seen screens of other people's desktops and the themes for the gtk1 apps blend in nicely with their gtk2 apps. The switch app displays a large list of available themes.

Anyone else getting this?

Cheers,
Arker

Princess Firefly · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Apr 2002 Posts: 80

You have to be sure that the theme you're "switching" to is a gtk1 theme. If you try to switch to a gtk2 theme (most of the themes there on my system) and hit preview it will show you a default one. In fact the only gtk1 theme I got working was bluecurve (the redhat stuff), which is still pretty ugly but nicer than the default.

I'm just not going to worry about it, evolution and xmms should catch up pretty quick (I hope).

Also, I only have switch for gtk1 installed. I can still use the theme switch in the gnome desktop preferences thing to change the gtk2 theme. I don't know what happens if you have switch1 and switch2 or if portage will even let you do that.

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mavos · Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2002 2:08 am Post subject:

There is no problem having both gtk-theme-switch 1 and 2 installed at the same time, but gtk-theme-switch is unfortunately stupid enough to show all themes for both gtk 1 and gtk 2 in both versions.

maKKus · Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2002 8:10 am Post subject:

You can also use gnomecc to switch gtk+1 themes. I never installed it but evolution seems to require it to be installed. Type gnomecc in a shell. To be sure you have a similar Gtk+1 and Gtk+2 theme install red-har artwork ebuild. This will install Bluecurve themes for gtk+1 gtk+2 and qt. I think it is a nice theme