Themes

[Brian J. Tarricone]

On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 brettholcomb at charter.net wrote:

> What exactly is the difference between the user interface and window 
> manager themes?  I know chosing the wm themes changes the look of all 
> my windows but what purpose is the user interface?

the WM themes control window decorations - the border and titlebar.  the 
UI themes control the look-and-feel of gtk2 applications, e.g., buttons, 
scrollbars, menus, etc.

> Does a theme have to have entries in both directories?  I have one 
> theme that only goes in the xfwm4 directory?

the themes are gtk2- and xfwm4-specific.  they're actually unrelated.  
you choose them independently, so you can mix and match which gtk2 theme 
you use with which xfwm4 theme you use.  they aren't compatible, of 
course - an xfwm4 theme can't be used as a gtk2 theme, and vice versa.

	-brian


> Thanks.
> 
> > 
> > From: Devin Whalen <devin at synapticvision.com>
> > Date: 2004/06/10 Thu PM 02:59:15 GMT
> > To: Nikola Pizurica <pizurica at neobee.net>, 
> >         Emmanuel Favre-Nicolin <emmanuel at favre-nicolin.net>
> > CC: XFCE general discussion list <xfce at xfce.org>
> > Subject: Re: Themes
> > 
> > On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 12:09, Emmanuel Favre-Nicolin wrote:
> > > Le mercredi 9 Juin 2004 17:20, Devin Whalen a écrit :
> > > > On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 22:43, Erick wrote:
> > > > > > Hello, my XFCE GTK2 theme engine is not working.  I am running Fedora
> > > > > > Core 2 -- and have tried installing from the FC2 > Ok, so there are two places for themes.  One for the window manager
> > themes in /usr/share/xfwm4/themes/ and one for the user interface themes
> > in.../usr/share/themes/....is that right?  
> > 
> > Well at any rate, moving the blanco-xfwm4 theme to
> > /usr/share/xfwm4/themes worked fine and all the other themes work fine
> > as well.  
> > 
> > However, it is the user-interface themes that are not working.  It seems
> > to almost hang for a second and then do nothing.  Is there something
> > that I have to make sure is running?  What xfce4 rpm do I need for the
> > user-interface themes? 
> > 
> > and for information :
> > > $ rpm -qa|grep xf
> > 
> > Your query didn't show any gtk-xfce-engine as well.  Does this mean you
> > don't need it for xfce4 on Mandrake?  That seems strange.
> > 
> > You need Smooth gtk2 engine, since that theme uses it.
> > > 
> > > Nikola
> > 
> > Does anyone know any urpmi sites that carry this rpm?
> > 
> > Thanks for the help.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Later
> > 
> > 
> > 
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