Hi, I have tried so many different themes under GTK1 (what my Lazarus is compiled with) and finally found a theme that looks really good under GTK1 and GTK2. Also the theme has no side effects under GTK1 like tool buttons going missing, etc.. I setup my Gnome desktop to use the Bluecurve theme, which uses GTK2 and Lazarus and Lazarus built apps using GTK1. You can hardly see the difference between the GTK1 and GTK2 apps, other than the non anti-aliased fonts. :-)
I'm using Ubuntu 7.04. I just thought I would let other Linux users know about this gem. To use it under Ubuntu you need to do the following: add these lines to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://home.planet.nl/~autar022/ ./ deb-src http://home.planet.nl/~autar022/ ./ and then at the prompt: $ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install redhat-artwork Note that "redhat-artwork" is a meta-package, if you do not want to install gtk1 packages, you can install the packages individually... $ sudo apt-get install gtk2-engines-bluecurve gdm-bluecurve icons-bluecurve metacity-bluecurve Now you are almost done. The theme engine cannot be found, because the latest Ubuntu uses GTK 2.10 and apt installs the theme engine as if you were running GTK 2.4. All you need to do is create two symbolic links to rectify the problem. Create two symlinks (libbluecurve.la and libbluecurve.so) in /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines ...pointing to the files in... /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/engines If you want to test you new theme the package 'thewidgetfactory' and run 'twf' from a command prompt. You shouldn't see any errors and can select any installed theme from the menu. Enjoy! -- Graeme Geldenhuys There's no place like S34° 03.168' E018° 49.342' _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
