Non-ugly widgets with gimp, etc.

phong · Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2002 10:48 pm Post subject: Non-ugly widgets with gimp, etc.

Ok, call me stupid, but I just can't figure it out. In an effort to get things like gimp and other gnome apps (or gtk, or gtk2, or gtk+ or whatever it is) using widgets that aren't hideous, I've emerged gnome. I got gnome running, I think, and I tried selecting a theme (bluecurve in this case, just to see if I could get it to work), but it din't affect the gimp (though the various gnome dialog boxes and whatnot seemed to take it just fine.) I even tried rebuilding the gimp. I do use KDE3 for my normal desktop, but would like my gnome apps to look OK too. Also, I couldn't figure out how to get antialiasing to work in gnome - I didn't see any sort of checkbox or anything on the font selection screen.

My experience with Gnome is minimal (and outdated - mostly with a few months ago before Gnome 2).
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mavos · Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2002 4:21 pm Post subject:

The answer is simple. The current stable GIMP still uses GTK 1.2. When you change theme in Gnome, you change the theme for GTK 2.0 only.

If you emerge gtk-theme-switch-1.0.1, you can use the "switch" program to change theme for GTK 1.

Alternatively, you can install the development version of GIMP... but it's kind of unstable.

mavos · Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2002 4:24 pm Post subject:

And for anti-aliasing in GTK 2, make sure the environment variable GDK_USE_XFT=1.

phong · Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2002 12:28 am Post subject:

Ah, that would explain it. Thanks, that's exactly what I needed to know.
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therion12 · n00b Joined: 18 Jun 2002 Posts: 41 Location: Chicago, IL

Gimp 1.3.7 which is the current beta is pretty stable for me. Didn't come across any major probs and the UI is GREAT since it uses GTK 2.0 which is a very nice visual improvement over GTK 1.x.

mavos · Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2002 7:05 am Post subject:

Yes, 1.3.7 has significant improvements over the stable 1.2.3 and generally works fine. Only the last time I had it installed, it behaved quite strange so I went back to the stable one. Hopefully 1.3 will be released as a stable 1.4 soon.

rac · Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2002 11:14 pm Post subject:

timmfin's gtk1.2 theme switcher? has been emancipated.
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