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godlikemouse / xfce4-finder

Smart and intuitive application finder, complete with theme and customization support for the XFCE desktop.
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Cannot find Gtk::StyleProperty #8

Open nandanvasudevan opened 2 years ago

nandanvasudevan commented 2 years ago

https://github.com/godlikemouse/xfce4-finder/blob/d1f6383aa976d132fc6f8bcd44d602f8befac0ff/src/custom-css.h#L7

Hi I came across your article and was about try it out and I could not find where and what Gtk::StyleProperty is.

Could you help me figure this out?

godlikemouse commented 2 years ago

Hi Nandan,

The Gtk::StyleProperty allows you to set a custom property that can be defined in CSS. For example, the above that you cited can be found defined in the default.css located at ~/.config/xfce4/finder/default.css once the xfce4-finder is installed as the following:

-gtkmm__CustomObject_finder-width: 1000;

Using this approach, I'm able to have the width of the finder determined by a CSS property. In the same default.css you can also find the following other custom properties:

-gtkmm__CustomObject_finder-height: 370;
-gtkmm__CustomObject_finder-results: 10;

Just as before, these allow for CSS defined custom values that the finder uses to determine the height of the finder as well as how many results to display at any one time.

You can find out more about StyleProperty in the Gtk docs https://docs.gtk.org/gtk3/class.StyleProperties.html.

Hope this helps. Please let me know if you need any further assistance.