From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Jan D." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Changing the no-toolkit scrollbar thumb color. (minor issue) Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2003 22:57:14 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <7F066A10-F776-11D7-98FD-00039363E640@swipnet.se> References: <200310051827.h95IR6N22588@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1065387642 32180 80.91.224.253 (5 Oct 2003 21:00:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2003 21:00:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bob@rattlesnake.com, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 05 23:00:40 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A6Fzc-0004OH-00 for ; Sun, 05 Oct 2003 23:00:40 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A6Fzb-0003US-00 for ; Sun, 05 Oct 2003 23:00:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1A6Fyt-0002h5-0O for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 05 Oct 2003 16:59:55 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1A6Fym-0002cS-Iq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Oct 2003 16:59:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1A6FyD-0001dO-Dv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Oct 2003 16:59:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [193.201.16.94] (helo=stubby.bodenonline.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1A6Fxb-0000h4-9w; Sun, 05 Oct 2003 16:58:35 -0400 Original-Received: from accessno42.bodenonline.com (accessno42.bodenonline.com [193.201.16.44]) by stubby.bodenonline.com (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id h95LgXmh024891; Sun, 5 Oct 2003 23:42:33 +0200 Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-Reply-To: <200310051827.h95IR6N22588@raven.dms.auburn.edu> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:16951 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:16951 > Jan D. wrote: > > The pixmap based scroll bars does seem to be the ones that are > immune to customizations. The names does not indicate anything. > > But are the problems related to non-theme GTK customization completely > confined to scroll-bar (and maybe other color related) customizations > of pixmap based themes or are there problems all over the place? For the "standard" themes, only scrollbars seem to use pixmap. But there is nothing that excludes other themes to use background pixmaps for other widget.s > > Maybe naive question: > > If I go to the Gnome "Control Center" and select "Theme Selector", or > use equivalent functionality to "preview" themes in other desktops, > are the pixmap based themes exactly those whose background clearly > "looks like a picture" instead of just some color, maybe with a > gradient? Is there otherwise some standard way to find out whether a > theme is pixmap based? I know of no standard way, except by look or by checking the theme specification files. Obviously, none of these methods are available programmatically. Scroll bar thumbs that are not uniform, that is have some lines or such in the middle, use pixmaps. Jan D.