Re: themes

[mike <mike redtux demon co uk>]

On a connected note I have come across serious problems with the stock
metal theme.

On many occasions if I have the theme selected the panel/nautilus will
crash and not restart.

Dont know if it is a xft2 related problem or not.

Has anyone else come across this - it does only happen with metal


On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 14:55, Calum Benson wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 09:17, Mark D'voo wrote:
> 
> > How come a lot of themes don't work ?  Any theme i install that shows up in 
> > metacity-setup doesn't work.  If i manually change the theme with gconf, 
> > about half of them work.  
> 
> The metacity theme format was changed slightly mid-development, so you
> might just be using old themes.  You can edit them yourself quite easily
> to make those ones work, but I forget what the magic line is you need to
> add to the XML file-- somebody else here can probably tell you.
> 
> >  Same goes with gtk2 themes.  Some of them change 
> > the background colors but don't change the scroll bars or anything like that.
> 
> Only engine-based themes (ones that install their own library for
> drawing the widgets differently) can change the scrollbars etc. as far
> as I know.  I'd guess either the theme isn't installing an engine for
> you, or it's installing it in the wrong place.  (Or maybe it's just not
> supposed to draw the widgets differently, but I assume you're comparing
> your results with a screenshot of how it's supposed to look).
> 
> Cheeri,
> Calum.
> 
> 
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