Themes using gnope distro of GTK2

kingrs · Joined: 15 Jan 2006 Posts: 30 Location: Stafford, UK

I have tried to get themes using the libpixmap.dll to work in the gnope distribution and made it work.

1.
From the glade2 directory copy glade2.exe and gtkthemeselector.exe to the gnope path
ie
c:\gnope

2.
Edit C:\gnope\etc\gtk-2.0\gtkrc and change the theme
gtk-theme-name = "H2O-gtk2-Ruby"
(Important: Clear out all other lines in this file.)

3.
Download the theme from http://art.gnome.org/themes/gtk2
ie
H20-gtk2-Ruby

Put this in c:\gnope\share\themes

4.
copy the engines from the glade2 for windows to the gnope engines directory:
ie.
C:\Glade2\lib\gtk-2.0\2.4.0\engines

C:\Gnope\lib\gtk-2.0\2.4.0\engines

5.
Run glade2 to check the themes are working.
Run gtkthemeselector to change the theme

6.
Build app using gtk2 and glade.

Cheers

Rob

karlbowden · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 5:34 am Post subject:

Hey rob. What version gtk did the pixmap engine you are using come from?
And if possible what site did you get it from?

I have followed your instructions, but I only see colour changes on widgets, ie. it's not using the libpixmap.dll engine.

from: gtk-win32-2.8.8-rc2.exe

I know the pixmap engine works with it's install of gtk it came with, just not dropped into gnope.

cweiske · Joined: 08 Dec 2005 Posts: 454 Location: Leipzig/Germany

kingrs · Joined: 15 Jan 2006 Posts: 30 Location: Stafford, UK

I had to re-do this to figure out which libpixmap.dll worked, the one that comes with glade2 for windows (v2.10.0 - 29k) does not, and there is not one in the gnope 1.0 - any chance this can be included in 1.1?

Download:
http://konap.sourceforge.net/gtk-themes-win32-2003-09-01.tar.gz

6mb download, copy the libpixmap.dll engine from the
gtk-themes-win32\lib\gtk-2.0\2.2.0\engines directory to your
share\themes\gtk-2.0\2.4.0\engines

Looks like going backwards a version but it works.

let me know if this works

Rob

kingrs · Joined: 15 Jan 2006 Posts: 30 Location: Stafford, UK

This is where I found the article about it:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-app-devel-list/2003-September/msg00009.html

Maybe someone can recompile it for gtk+ 2.4.0 ?

kingrs · Joined: 15 Jan 2006 Posts: 30 Location: Stafford, UK

Sorry correct that, the dll needs to be copied from
gtk-themes-win32\lib\gtk-2.0\2.2.0\engines
to
lib\gtk-2.0\2.4.0\engines

Rob

karlbowden · Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 2:56 am Post subject:

That did the trick spot on.

Great work guys.

I would also put in a +1 for seeing even just the pixmap engine (50kb) included in gnope. I have it deployed to a few machines at the automotive dealership I work at, using the wimp engine on xp machines, and the pixmap engine - vista theme on others. Most users here like the conststancy.

I also add a couple of standard php modules to the gnope install - curl and sqlite (also needs pdo). Other than that great work.

Karlos

cweiske · Joined: 08 Dec 2005 Posts: 454 Location: Leipzig/Germany

kingrs · Joined: 15 Jan 2006 Posts: 30 Location: Stafford, UK

My additions would be:

ext\php_pdo.dll
ext\php_pdo_mysql.dll
ext\php_pdo_sqlite.dll

(total zipped size = 172k and gives mysql and sqlite support using pdo)

lib\gtk-2.0\2.4.0\engines\libpixmap.dll

share\themes\Metal\gtk-2.0\gtkrc

Set default theme in etc\gtk-2.0\gtkrc to metal

All thats needed then is to take the updated NDIS file and add the package that you need to install on the client machine, and recompile a new distro.

cweiske · Joined: 08 Dec 2005 Posts: 454 Location: Leipzig/Germany

Osiris · Joined: 17 Dec 2005 Posts: 65

karlbowden · Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 9:40 am Post subject:

I personally dont mind adding the extra modules I need, it's not too much hassel. 8 meg i dont mind to much either, i only need to download it once.

I do like wimp, but i have noticed that there are not as many icons on the default 'ok' and 'cancel' buttons etc.., but I would still use it. Looks nice and natural on xp.