GTK, MDK, and XFCE

[Brian J. Tarricone]

sorry for the top-posting; i'm being lazy.

_please_ do not use XMMS as an example.  it is a gtk 1.2 app, and thus 
has _nothing_ to do with the theming set by xfce (gtk 2 apps).  XMMS is, 
imho, the one holdover program that everyone seems to use that is still 
a gtk 1.2 app (no, i'm not suggesting there aren't others, just that 
XMMS is the most prevalent by far).  on a related note, if you want XMMS 
to "fit in," you might try beep (htpp://beepmp.sf.net/), which is a gtk 
2 fork/port of XMMS.  it has its quirks, but i've found it to work quite 
well for my purposes.

random rant: honestly, though, when is someone going to design and write 
from scratch a gtk2-based media player that is as featureful as XMMS but 
is actually designed correctly?  this is not a criticism of the early 
XMMS/x11amp devs, since they had to work with old high-latency, 
non-preemptible linux kernels, but their design is horribly outdated and 
inefficient for a 2.6 or recent 2.4 kernel.

    -brian


Jack Kern wrote:

> Olivier Fourdan wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> You have no $HOME/.gtkrc-2.0, do you?
>>
>> $HOME/.gtkrc-2.0 
>
> I assume you suggest that any $HOME/.gtkrc-2.0 should be removed as 
> XFce programs may be compromised.
>
> I wondered if that may cause problems with other apps.  For example, 
> without a gtkrc file xmms fonts are rather ugly.  When I copied a 
> file, /etc/gtk/gtkrc.utf-8, to ~/.gtkrc, they looked much better.
> ---------------------
> jkern at boat:~$ cat /etc/gtk/gtkrc.utf-8
> style "default-text" {
>       fontset = "-*-arial-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1,\
>                  -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*"
> }
>
> class "GtkWidget" style "default-text"
> ---------------------
> Copying it to ~/.gtkrc-2.0 was just like having no gtkrc again.  I 
> finally moved ~/.gtkrc to .xmms/gtkrc, the fonts looked just the same 
> as when it was ~/.gtkrc.  I don't claim to understand why this happens.
>
> Well, so what, eh?  (For one thing I don't know what I am talking 
> about.)  Anyhow, perhaps there are applications that need some kind of 
> gtkrc-* file.  The problem would be to configure somehow without 
> compromising XFce functions.
>
> Linux boat 2.6.4-rc1 #2 Fri Feb 27 21:45:12 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux -- 
> Debian sid/unstable
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