OT(ish) Colours

[Jasper Huijsmans]

On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 09:15:12 +0100
Benedikt Meurer <Benedikt.Meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de> wrote:

> On Fri, 28, Feb 2003, Biju Chacko wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 02:55, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> > > xfce4 provides such a tool and provides quite a few gtk themes
> > > too.
> > > 
> > > xfce-setting-show ui
> > 
> > Argghh ... does that mean that there is no way of setting custom
> > widget colours without diving into my .gtkrc ?
> > You gotta admit, this is one place where Windoze does it better than
> > us! Not everybody who wants to change colours knows how to create
> > gtk themes.
> 
> I think Biju is right, Xfce4 should include a simple way to set user
> defined colors.
> 

Unfortunately writing good gtk themes is hard and writing a good theme
generator is even harder. I remember reading on the gnome list about
ideas for a simple color API, but nothing has come of that.

	Jasper