Re: Shortcuts text colour and Command Center window problems on Puppy Linux

[Lib Lists]

On Mon, 2 Mar 2020 at 14:48, Richard Shann <address@hidden> wrote:
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> On Mon, 2020-03-02 at 14:18 +0200, Lib Lists wrote:
> > On Mon, 2 Mar 2020 at 12:08, Richard Shann <address@hidden>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, 2020-02-29 at 19:51 +0200, Lib Lists wrote:
> > > >
> > >
> > > [...]
> > > > > > > The color of the keyboard shortcuts is hard wired,
> > > > > > > unfortunately,
> > > > > > > and I
> > > > > > > see from your picture that it doesn't work well with themes
> > > > > > > that
> > > > > > > use a
> > > > > > > dark background with light colored lettering. The menu
> > > > > > > background
> > > > > > > color
> > > > > > > and the color of the labels in the menus is not hard-wired
> > > > > > > by
> > > > > > > Denemo
> > > > > > > however, so theming should work for them. I've not explored
> > > > > > > how
> > > > > > > themes
> > > > > > > can be chosen under Gtk though so I can't really go beyond
> > > > > > > saying
> > > > > > > it
> > > > > > > should work :( Do other Gtk-based applications change
> > > > > > > appropriately
> > > > > > > on
> > > > > > > that virtual machine?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Hi, just tested with Abiword
> > > > >
> > > > > is that a Gtk based program (or Qt for example)?
> > > >
> > > > Yes it's a Gtk program.
> > >
> > > and the background color of pop-up menus in Abiword changes when
> > > you
> > > change theme but does not in Denemo?
> >
> > Sorry my mistake, Abiword behaves like Denemo i.e. only the title bar
> > changes, while the menus don't. However, Gnumeric works well. After
> > some research it seems that the installed version of Abiword is a
> > Gtk3
> > program, while Gnumeric (version 1.10.17) is a Gtk2 program.
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> You can build Denemo against Gtk2 but there are some features that are
> not so good. IIRC Gtk3 has switched to using cascading style sheets (or
> some such terminology) where you can specify the style of things at an
> extremely granular level - Denemo is exploiting this internally, e.g.
> to paint the background of the frames differently for the different
> types of Denemo Directive in the Score/Movement/Staff/etc editors.
> Ideally this would be done by providing a style sheet with Denemo that
> the user could then adjust, but, as I say, I haven't delved so deeply
> into how that would work.
> I think the installed Gtk3 libraries that you have will include a
> variety of styles and something to specify the default, so, short of
> finding a Gtk3 theme chooser program you could directly alter that
> default (probably by putting the choice in some .config file in your
> home directory).

Hi Richard,
thank you for your suggestion! I'll give it a try and report.

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> HTH
>
> Richard
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