Re: gtk-2-24-win32 branch update

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Fri, 2011-11-04 at 16:38 +0100, Maarten Bosmans wrote:

> > So, could everyone interested in the windows support test this please.
> > I'd like to make a 2.24 release with this stuff in it so that we have a
> > final Gtk2 with good win32 support. Obviously we don't want to have any
> > bad regressions for existing Gtk win32 apps in this release, so *please*
> > test stuff.
> 
> I tested it by building it on the OBS and compiling my app against the
> new packages. Testing went well under Windows XP and 7. Several things
> I noticed before have improved now. Thank you very much for your
> efforts!
> 
> The only regression I could spot was caused by defaulting to the
> ms-windows theme. It only popped up because my app uses a
> murrine-based theme. The solution was to override some settings from
> ms-windows gtkrc to the murrine gtkrc. Even though for me it was a
> regression, I don't think that commit has to be changed, as almost
> nobody uses the murrine theme engine on windows.

Yeah, i think most people will want the MS-Windows theme. You can still
change it by editing your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file as before, only the default
changed.