Re: Set the background color in GTK1

["Chris Manning" <cascadia swiftdsl com au>]

:Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 21:21:55 +0100
:From: Chris Seaton <chris chrisseaton com>
:I'm interested in why people are so 
:interested in 
:setting the background colour of widgets. It's always coming 
:up! What's 
:going on out there that people need to set the colour of their widgets 
:to something other than what the user wants?

The reason I would do it is that the default themes that come with any
operating system are usually crap. Oh look, another shade of grey or beige,
or hey, why not pumpkin yellow or a bad combination of green and purple for
the wacky-at-heart. 

<.rant>
Sorry, I'm sick of these themes, and most users wouldn't know how to go
about finding different themes either (or, like me, they can't be bothered -
it's an incredible waste of time). So, why not inflict my own colour scheme
on users, the way other programmers inflict awful themes on me. An eye for
an eye, baby. It's all fine and proper and egalitarian to say that the user
should be able to change their own schemes, but usually, they don't. As far
as I'm concerned, a cohesive colour scheme is part of any good design.
Leaving anything up to the user usually results in an ugly mess ;).
<./rant>

Chris :)