Some knowledge of the GTK+2 API can be helpful with more complicated themes documentation can be found at. This tutorial will explain the basics of creating a GTK+2 theme for use with GNOME 2.2 and above. This will only be useful in very rare cases (maybe for keybinding stuff, which is not the topic of this page). Locale-specific gtkrcs ( will, for example, be parsed in German locales). How theme engines are used see comment in the section.Need information about icon size handling and a list of icon sizes in GNOME (see also Redmond gtkrc that sets numerous icon sizes).See for a list of properties that can be set (not all of them make sense from the gtkrc).

The GtkSettings properties are not mentioned here. Inheritance, i.e., style 'button' = 'default', but this is usually not necessary because of merging, and needs a warning, as it doesn't work correctly for engine options as far as is known. GnomePanel /GtkButton /GtkCheckButton /GtkColorButton /GtkCombo /GtkComboBox /GtkComboBo圎ntry /GtkEntry /GtkFrame /GtkList /GtkMenu /GtkMenuBar /GtkMenuItem /GtkNotebook /GtkProgressBar /GtkRadioButton /GtkScale /GtkScrollbar /GtkScrolledWindow /GtkSpinButton /GtkStatusbar /GtkTreeView /Pidgin /StyleProperties /SymbolicColors /Workarounds If you have any comments, please write me an e-mail ( or come to #gnome-art on. There seems to be a glitch in Guifications and email notifications- after changing themes, unselect and then reselect 'Email' in the 'Notifications' tab if email notifications don't appear.Please feel free to add documentation or correct things. Make sure the colour you want to use is named background.png There are two background images supplied. If anybody uses the theme and notices bugs- text ellipsis, most likely- please grab a screenshot and send it to me. I haven't tested it with file transfers etc. The theme is working with email notifications and basic IM message notifications (sign on, sign off etc)- see screenshot above. There's a blue popup to match the default themes in these Distro's, plus an orange pop-up to match the New Wave theme which I use. This is a theme for Pidgin Guifications notifications designed to match Gnome notifications in basic Gnome desktops like Ferdora, Mandriva and Debian- it was designed and tested on Debian Lenny.

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