[Geany] Minor question about Geany GTK theme tweaking on Windows

[Lex Trotman]

On 26 February 2011 23:46, Len Philpot <len at philpot.org> wrote:
> [ From Geany general discussion list (Matthew Brush) on Saturday, February
> 26, 2011 ]
>
>>> Does anyone know offhand what needs to be set to accomplish what I'm
>>> trying to do?
>> I think its:
>
>>      style "menu" ...
>>      {
>>          ...
>>          fg[PRELIGHT] = <color>
>
> I read the description of PRELIGHT to mean the colow when a widget is
> hovered over... maybe I was wrong? At any rate, I tried this without
> success, but I could be missing it syntactically.
>
> I've since discovered two things:
>
> 1. The selected text is indeed the right color if the (default and IMO,
> ugly) Vista theme is used at the system level
> 2. It does indeed behave the same in at least one other GTK app (Gimp). I
> thought Geany was the only one, but was mistaken.
>
> Thanks.
>

Check which version of GTK you are using, IIUC only versions 2.16 and
2.22+ do theming properly in windows.  The ones in between are broken.

Cheers
Lex

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