18 Jan
2021
18 Jan
'21
8:56 p.m.
On Monday 18 January 2021 12:08:31 E. Liddell wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jan 2021 09:01:54 -0800
Non-TDE applications will mostly be using one of three widget toolkits:
GTK2, GTK3, or QT5.
The easiest way I've found to theme QT5 is to use qt5ct. Your distro may
have it packaged, or get it from https://sourceforge.net/projects/qt5ct/ .
GTK2 and GTK3 can be themed by using gtk-qt-engine and/or
gtk3-qt-engine , which are optional TDE packages. They're known to
cause problems with some systems, though. Try gtk3-qt-engine first.
The other option for theming GTK2 and GTK3 is to edit some text files.
The theme file for GTK2 is .gtkrc-2.0, in the user's home directory, and
it uses a proprietary format. GTK3 uses one or more CSS files located in
~/.config/gtk-3.0/ . Unfortunately, figuring out exactly what to do with
these files is like pulling hen's teeth, or at least I was never able to
find any documentation with the list of GTK widget names on it. I had to
hunt through a bunch of downloaded styles to get things sort-of working,
and GTK3 is, in addition, a moving target to some extent.
I have my own hand-edited GTK2 and GTK3 theming files (set up for
white text on black/dark blue) that I can offer as examples if you need
them, although both styles are slightly flawed.
E. Liddell
Yes, that's what I recall. Would you please share it again? I did save it, but
when my hard drive crashed a few months back, I lost an incredible amount of
materials -- I am still trying to cope -- and among it were the css themes
that you had shared earlier.
I used those as starts to make my own. A little homework, together with using
yours for my cribs, and I am almost done already.
;-)
To do it properly will take more research on css, but for now I just want to
fix the immediate problem.
Bill