[Geany-devel] Moving RC styles to a file

[Colomban Wendling]

Hi guys,

I'm considering moving our hard-coded custom styles (notebook tab button
sizing, monospaced search entries and unmatched search entries) to an
external resource file (geany.gtkrc in the datadir) -- patch attached.

The main reason to do this is to make it easier to replace this by a CSS
file for my GTK3 port (attempt).  However, we can see a few other
interesting (or not) points:

+ this removes some hard-coded stuff in a few places;
+ this actually removes an overall of 16 lines, and actually 39 lines
  of code (those 23 lines being in the resource file);
+ easier to replace with a CSS file in the GTK3 port (and gives the
  same advantages than with the RC files);
- that's another file to load.

So the question is, are we happy to load another file at startup,
besides the Glade XML?  I don't think it's a performance problem,
moreover the file being probably stored in a near location to the Glade
file, but since we always tried to load as less files as possible, do we
want to add this file?

Since now we need to load the Glade file anyway, I think it's less of a
concern to add additional external files.  If we think external files
are OK, maybe we'd like to also move our custom images out of images.c
to normal files in out datadir.  Actually, we currently have 7 inline
images (aladin (logo), build, close all, and two save all, and the two
used in the completion popup), but also "normal" icons (for the symbol
list for example).

So, what do you think?

Regards,
Colomban
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