On 13-03-28 12:26 PM, pauriem@gmail.com wrote:

manual says geany is sensitive to some styles in gtkrc that a user can customize, example is given for changing font, and I have also managed to change bg color in a limited way

I wonder how I could find full list of properties that are susceptible to customization in this way

for instance, can background of document tabs be styled? how about background of highlighted toolbar buttons or dropdowns such as recent file list from the toolbar?

What's listed in the manual is all of the "exposed" widgets you can match/style using normal GTK+ theming methods. You can do pretty much whatever GTK+ theming allows though.

The manual for GTK2/3 resource files is here:

http://www.gtk.org/api/2.6/gtk/gtk-Resource-Files.html

Or for GTK3 CSS:

https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/3.0/GtkCssProvider.html

Also there's loads of tutorials about GTK+ theming online.

You can get as clever as you want and style just about any widget in Geany's UI I think. You might need to open "data/geany.glade" file from Geany's source tree (or installed to "$PREFIX/share/geany" IIRC) to see what are the names of certain widgets, but note that only the widgets in the manual won't be changed arbitrarily in new versions, if you are able to match by buildable names or hierarchies from the Glade file, it's entirely possible that they will change from version to version, breaking your theme on upgrade.

As for your first specific question, you might be able to match the document notebook using "notebook1" buildable name and then further matching its label children. I don't really know much about this stuff, but if I had to guess, for GTK RC files, I'd say something like this:

style "documentLabels" { bg[NORMAL] = #f00 } widget_class "notebook1.GtkNotebook*GtkLabel" style "documentLabels"

I guess if that works, it should be similar for the other ones you mentioned.

Have fun, Matthew Brush