On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 20:35, Globe Trotter wrote: > Sorry if this is not appropriate for posting here. > > I use GTK2-versions of Firefox for my browser and of sylpheed-claws for my > e-mail agent. I wanted to use separate themes/settings for each of these. How > do I set it up if I want to do that? Is it possible, or do I have to stick with > the same GTK2 settings for every application? > > Thanks and best wishes! > The GTK is a system wide theme. So you cannot use different themes per app. That would be skinning, and would be frowned upon anyway.

Around about 17/03/2004 01:47, Globe Trotter typed ... > Hmmm....that's bad! Does that mean that despite the fact that there are so many > themes available, I am stuck on having to use one theme for everything? Is > there no way this can be got around? I've never done it that I can recall, and I only ever partially investigated it for GTK-1, but the mechanism used to be there to fiddle with application-specific settings by adding settings to a ~/.gtkrc

I couldn't tell you whether that would allow you to actually select whole diff. /themes/ per app. or what, but I'd start there (look for refs. to gtkrc on the gnome site).

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On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 03:47, Globe Trotter wrote: > --- Maynard Kuona <knxmay001(a)mail.uct.ac.za&gt; wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 20:35, Globe Trotter wrote: > > > Sorry if this is not appropriate for posting here. > > > > > > I use GTK2-versions of Firefox for my browser and of sylpheed-claws for my > > > e-mail agent. I wanted to use separate themes/settings for each of these. > > How > > > do I set it up if I want to do that? Is it possible, or do I have to stick > > with > > > the same GTK2 settings for every application? > > > > > > Thanks and best wishes! > > > > > > > The GTK is a system wide theme. So you cannot use different themes per > > app. That would be skinning, and would be frowned upon anyway. > > Hmmm....that's bad! Does that mean that despite the fact that there are so many > themes available, I am stuck on having to use one theme for everything? Is > there no way this can be got around? > No, that is not bad. That is good actually. The apps are supposed to look the same and act the same because that his how the developers intended it. It is bad usability to have application skinning. If you want a skinnable app, then either look for a different one, or write one ;) It was designed that way. How many Windows apps, or rather Microsoft apps can you skin. Next to none. Skinning results in large inconsistencies which are to be avoided.

Sorry if this is not appropriate for posting here. I use GTK2-versions of Firefox for my browser and of sylpheed-claws for my e-mail agent. I wanted to use separate themes/settings for each of these. How do I set it up if I want to do that? Is it possible, or do I have to stick with the same GTK2 settings for every application?