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OdinsDream
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 Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2002 7:39 pm Post subject: "Skinning" gaim with KDE styles. |
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| Is it possible to apply the selected KDE style to applications like gaim that seem to use a different set of widgets? |
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phong
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| Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2002 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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Sadly, no. Only things that use kde/qt widgets are affected by KDE styles. Gaim uses gtk (or gtk2 maybe, not sure), so it needs a corresponding theme. There is the redhat-artwork which includes matching themes for kde and gtk. You can use gtk-theme-switch to select it (obvously, you'd have to emerge redhat-artwork and gtk-theme-switch to do that). Oh, and gtk-theme-switch has two versions, one for gtk and one for gtk2 - it's slotted so both can be installed.
I'm hoping that somebody out there is working on a keramik clone theme for gtk and gtk2, but I'm not holding my breath. Maybe that's my purpose in life...
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OdinsDream
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| Posted: Sat Oct 19, 2002 4:12 pm Post subject: |
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Ok. I emerged the various things related to gtk themes and I've run the tool switch2 to let me select a new theme. I've got plenty to choose from after emerging them, and I picked one that's fitting.
However, even though this small switch2 applet is affected by the change (if i rerun it, it's skinned correctly), gaim continues to be unaffected, even if I restart it.
Is gaim indeed using GTK? |
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Kawada
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| Posted: Sat Oct 19, 2002 7:22 pm Post subject: |
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| OdinsDream wrote: | Ok. I emerged the various things related to gtk themes and I've run the tool switch2 to let me select a new theme. I've got plenty to choose from after emerging them, and I picked one that's fitting.
However, even though this small switch2 applet is affected by the change (if i rerun it, it's skinned correctly), gaim continues to be unaffected, even if I restart it.
Is gaim indeed using GTK? |
Yes gaim is using GTK, but it is not using GTK2. The switch2 application only affects the theming of GTK2 apps. Try emerging version 1.0.1 of gtk-theme-switch. | Code: | | emerge /usr/portage/x11-themes/gtk-theme-switch/gtk-theme-switch-1.0.1.ebuild |
That one will change the themes on GTK1 apps, like gaim and gimp.
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redmantis
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| Posted: Sat Oct 19, 2002 7:26 pm Post subject: yes its using gtk |
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it uses gtk 1.2 not 2.0 hence the switch2...try just getting getting gtk-switch it worked for me! 
i could be wrong with the gtk version but that is your problem. I had the same one but with the first version of switch (not switch2) I now have a gaim that looks like the rest of my desktop. oh and you also have to make sure your theme also works in gtk1.2 not just gtk2, gtk2 themes will not work with switch.
for instance I am using the Bluecurve themes. and they work quite nicely! imho
themes for gtk1.2/gtk2/kde/metacity .etc |
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OdinsDream
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| Posted: Sat Oct 19, 2002 9:27 pm Post subject: |
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Ok, i just added gtk2 to the USE variables, and followed the steps in the "new gaim ebuild" thread to get the latest CVS sources compiled.
The new gaim uses gtk2 and is now skinnable with switch2 |
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