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a tiny graphical app kit for ruby
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Shoes Windows could have themes #354

Closed ccoupe closed 5 years ago

ccoupe commented 7 years ago

Continued from #345

One problem with having the user download and switch themes is that Windows wants Admin rights to wrire into Common Files (x86). Fortunately, Gtk has some not well known/documented ways to find settings.ini

If you create %USER%%APPDATA%\Local\gtk-3\settings.ini that it will override any previous setting found during gtk initialization. I tried it. It works. Now, we need a place to store the user supplied/downloaded themes so GTK can find them and of course GTK has many options for doing that., also not well documented for Windows.I just need to find one that is user writeable.

ccoupe commented 7 years ago

Many Gtk themes will work so-so with Shoes and some not at all. From the shoes perspective, they are bloated with lots of things Shoes/Windows doesn't need and can't use so it is problematic to make it Shoes easy.

ccoupe commented 7 years ago

see wiki

dredknight commented 7 years ago

Splendid!

ccoupe commented 6 years ago

This will be fun for the curious. It's only working on Linux (so far). The first image is my default theme. The second image is from a Gtk3 Theme named XP theme-default-combo theme-xp-combo

You need a Gtk3 theme without ties to different theme engines. For example, the FlatStudio theme is tied to the unico theme engire and doesn't work with Shoes (on my Linux system)

ccoupe commented 6 years ago

Switching theme is pretty simple. theme-switch The real problem is that most of the Gtk3 themes I've tried have failed to parse. Since I have no css skills that's going to slow progress.

ccoupe commented 6 years ago

I've got 3.3.7 betas for Windows, Linux X86 and freebsd that will load a theme from ~/.shoes/themes Appdata/Local/Shoes/themes for Windows. Note: That's a user writable space. You'll want a theme that works like XP Untar it , create the above directory and move the XP directory to it. Cobbler->Theme->Switch should finds it. Save. Restart Shoes. If you launch from the terminal you'll get a message that it load the theme.Or if you add a poor theme to the directory, you'll get screen or two of parsing errors to fix.

That about the end of what I can do. Somebody else can deal with bad css.

ccoupe commented 5 years ago

Closing 3.3.7 issues.