Re: gtk-engines update

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Richard Hestilow <tvgm ximian com> writes:
> gtk-theme-switcher has been ported but it doesn't work right, is there
> documentation of all the gtkrc-level changes to the theming system?
>

The way the theme switcher should work now:

 - we should have a schema in libgnome for the theme name gconf key
 - theme switcher just gets/sets that key
 - gnome-settings-daemon propagates the key to the XSETTING
   for the theme name
 - GTK will pick that up
 
i.e. no gtkrc involved. Should mean most of the code in the theme
switcher goes away.

I'm less sure how the "pick a custom font" should work, though.
Ideally the same way probably but I'm not sure GTK has that XSETTING
yet.

XSETTINGS:
  http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/xsettings.html

There should possibly be a "custom colors" setting as well that would
override the theme, I don't know. Didn't someone have a UI proposal
for the simple colors&fonts control panel? Can they post it if so?

Havoc