Option question

[H.R. ter Veer]

On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 16:57:13 +0200
Jasper Huijsmans <j.b.huijsmans at hetnet.nl> wrote:

> At 04:39 PM 4/25/02, you wrote:
> >On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> >
> > > I'm afraid its either on or off. No configuration possible. Basically what
> > > happens is that xfce translates the palet colors to a set of x resource
> > > lines and merges those with the existing configuration. This is a fixed set
> > > of rules, somewhere in the code. Of course it isn't suposed to generate
> > > white on white text.
> >
> >   Thank you, Jasper. My follow up question (which may not be appropriate to
> >this list) is how those colors are assigned to different applications.
> >Perhaps I need to dig into how X uses color resources.
> 

To adept a Joe style awnser: i don't care, as long as it works, and it works for me

> I'm not completely sure what you're asking here, but I'm pretty sure I 
> don't know the answer ;-) If you want to know how xfce translates palet 
> colors to x resources, you will have to look at the source (somewhere in 
> the xfce/ subdir, the function is called apply_to_all(), I think).
> 
> >   What I would like to do, fairly easily if possible, is understand to what
> >aspects of the display each palette setting color is applied. I notice that
> >as I select different theme engines, the perceived role of each button
> >changes.
> 
> Yes, that's true and this also depends on whether you compiled with 
> old-style or not. Olivier once explained it to someone I think. Maybe you 
> can find it in the archives on moongroup.com. Maybe it was on the xfce-dev 
> list.
> 
> >   If I can understand this, and learn if I can combine features of two
> >different window themes into what I want to see displayed, then I can save
> >these files for the next upgrade and restore the look and feel that I prefer
> >despite changes to the new, default configurations.
> >
> >Rich
> >
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