xsettings settings is confirmed added back to moblin-applets 0.55jax1.
Happy to say that modifying /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_theme gconf key manually to another valid gtk theme dir now causes auto-propagation of new gtkrc info to all gtk apps, which redraw themselves accordingly. (Note: this does not work reliably in xephyr+target.)
xsettings settings is confirmed added back to moblin-applets 0.55jax1.
Happy to say that modifying /desktop/ gnome/interface /gtk_theme gconf key manually to another valid gtk theme dir now causes auto-propagation of new gtkrc info to all gtk apps, which redraw themselves accordingly. (Note: this does not work reliably in xephyr+target.)