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Hello everybody here..

I've discovered this helpful software for changing gtk themes and I'm planning to use it because it seems much more easier than manual read and go up and down on a text file like the usual gtkrc one..
So, I'm using Gnome-Color-Chooser just from this morning and I have a big doubt: when I press Apply the modifications I've done to the current theme are automatically saved on the gtkrc file of the same theme?
I'm asking this question because I haven't been able to notice any modification to the date of the file..

I'm using a slackware 12.2 with xfce 4.6.1 as DE..

Could you help me please? I've look around on the web site but I haven't found any answer to this doubt..
Thank you very much for your time and excuse me if my english is not so clear as I would!

Firstly, thanks for using GNOME Color Chooser

No, as you've already found out, the original theme isn't touched at all, instead we're overwriting its settings by using a ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file. Settings in that file have a higher priority than those from the original theme.
Further details can be found here (section "How it works").

OK, an update..

Now it seems that I've better understood the usage of Gnome-Color-Chooser: it adds a line on ~/.gtkrc-2.0:

Code:

include ".gtkrc-2.0-gnome-color-chooser"

and then create the ~/.gtkrc-2.0-gnome-color-chooser file where the real modification are writed down.
Now the new question is: doing so, there is no risk that the new values on ~/.gtkrc-2.0-gnome-color-chooser contained values present on the old theme gtkrc file ( ~/.themes/example/gtk-2.0/gtkrc)?

Exactly, the file ~/.gtkrc-2.0-gnome-color-chooser contains _only_ your modifications and _nothing_ from the original theme.

And, much of all: if I want to publish a new theme with the resulting Gnome Color Chooser values, how can I mix the two files to obtain a new one with all the modifications?

As always, I hope that my english is not so bad as it seems to me.. and that is at least understandable..

Thank you again and see you soon!, I hope!

That's currently not really possible. I'd suggest that you share the original theme (if needed/possible) and additionally the *.gnomecc file (via file->save as).
You can always try to just append the contents of ~/.gtkrc-2.0-gnome-color-chooser to your theme's gtkrc file, but there's no guarantee that all modifications will still take effect, though (due to priority reasons). Hopefully, the GNOME 3 theming format will easily allow this.

Btw. your English is pretty understandable.. even or at least for me.. being a non-native speaker, too. So, don't worry! ;-)

Best regards,
JackTheDipper


P.S.: Is your treeview theming in thunar now working? (wrt #gnome-art)

OK, an update..

Now it seems that I've better understood the usage of Gnome-Color-Chooser: it adds a line on ~/.gtkrc-2.0:

Code:

include ".gtkrc-2.0-gnome-color-chooser"

and then create the ~/.gtkrc-2.0-gnome-color-chooser file where the real modification are writed down.
Now the new question is: doing so, there is no risk that the new values on ~/.gtkrc-2.0-gnome-color-chooser contained values present on the old theme gtkrc file ( ~/.themes/example/gtk-2.0/gtkrc)?
And, much of all: if I want to publish a new theme with the resulting Gnome Color Chooser values, how can I mix the two files to obtain a new one with all the modifications?

As always, I hope that my english is not so bad as it seems to me.. and that is at least understandable..

Thank you again and see you soon!, I hope!

Hello everybody here..

I've discovered this helpful software for changing gtk themes and I'm planning to use it because it seems much more easier than manual read and go up and down on a text file like the usual gtkrc one..
So, I'm using Gnome-Color-Chooser just from this morning and I have a big doubt: when I press Apply the modifications I've done to the current theme are automatically saved on the gtkrc file of the same theme?
I'm asking this question because I haven't been able to notice any modification to the date of the file..

I'm using a slackware 12.2 with xfce 4.6.1 as DE..

Could you help me please? I've look around on the web site but I haven't found any answer to this doubt..
Thank you very much for your time and excuse me if my english is not so clear as I would!

Hello,
I am trying to change the colors of the start menu with gnomecc while using the default Human theme in Jaunty, but this doesn't fully work:

Code:

$ cat ~/.gtkrc-2.0-gnome-color-chooser
pixmap_path "/home/ariel/.gnome-color-chooser/images/"

style "gnome-color-chooser-startmenue"
{
  bg[NORMAL] = "#999999"     # This doesn't work
  bg[SELECTED] = "#FF0000"   # This doesn't work
  fg[NORMAL] = "#FF0000"     # This doesn't work
  fg[PRELIGHT] = "#00FF00"   # This doesn't work
  xthickness = 20                      # This works
  ythickness = 5                       # This works
  font_name = "Trebuchet MS Bold 11"   # This works
}
widget "GtkWindow.gnome-panel-main-menu*" style "gnome-color-chooser-startmenue"

Apparently the drawing is done by an Engine (murrine?), so I tried changing the Engine for the "Start Menue" in the last tab, to no effect. What now?

http://identi.ca/group/gnomecolorchooser

Hey jack!

Apologies for not replying sooner! - Totally lost track of this in the midst of work!

I'll give the section of code a try in the next day or so and let you know if it worked or not

As far as names go it's honestly really not necessary but if you insist, Scoobymad555 will be fine mate


cheers,
scooby.

It works without an DE--wow!!
i can not live (in linux) without this app.--its great!!
no more chubby themes.

keep up the good work
keep it bloat free and i'll be happy

Hi, Harii!

To be honest, I don't know antix-mepis / oroborus-wm. GNOME Color Chooser works only for desktop environments and/or applications that are built on top of GTK+. Programs that use other GUI toolkits cannot be configured with it.

An entry in .xinitrc isn't needed. All GTK+ environments are automatically affected by the ~/.gtkrc-2.0* files that are created for your user by GNOME Color Chooser when you click on apply.

I hope this answer is a bit helpful to you. Feel free to concretize what your system is using as a toolkit (GTK+, Qt, Motif, ..? ) and I'll love to answer further questions,

JackTheDipper ;-)

 I think that is a great ideal!
you could use it in Zenity?

 I have an old system and use antix-mepis with oroborus-wm.
Is there anything i need to do extra to use the color themes?
i'm using it now to resize some of the chubby xfce/gnome gtkrc-2.0 themes thinner.
This app. is great for those small screen sizes.
 Do i need to add it to my startup? (.xinitrc)