look and feel on windows: default gtk laf is used

[Sebastian Niedworok]

Hello all,

on windows zim (0.50) uses the default gtk look and feel, which does
not integrate very nicely into the rest of the OS.
The problem can be solved by putting a gtkrc file into the etc\gtk-2.0\
folder. a one liner is sufficient, something like:

gtk-theme-name = "MS-Windows"

best regards,
Sebastian

[Jaap Karssenberg (jaap.karssenberg)]

Can add this to the manual as a tip, but not going to touch the gtkrc from
the zim source code.

-- Jaap

On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Sebastian Niedworok <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Public bug reported:
>
> Hello all,
>
> on windows zim (0.50) uses the default gtk look and feel, which does
> not integrate very nicely into the rest of the OS.
> The problem can be solved by putting a gtkrc file into the etc\gtk-2.0\
> folder. a one liner is sufficient, something like:
>
> gtk-theme-name = "MS-Windows"
>
> best regards,
> Sebastian
>
> ** Affects: zim
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
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[Sebastian Niedworok (niedworok)]

This bug report is more of a bug report for Brandan, who packs the windows installer.
Including the proper gtkrc would make for a better first impression on that platform.
There is no gtkrc in the zim source code, neither should there be one, imho.

Sebastian

[Brendan Kidwell (bkidwell)]

The Windows package builder is a folder off the main Zim source tree and the proposed gtkrc change should go in there. Shouldn't be hard to accomplish. Will target 0.53 release.

[Brendan Kidwell (bkidwell)]

Just to clarify: currently, Zim includes it's own full GTK library with (possibly) its own GTK config files. Since it doesn't share any GTK things with other Windows apps -- there is no real standard protocol to do so -- it's perfectly appropriate for us to include any sane defaults in the gtkrc file in Windows since it will only be used by Zim. The user can override these defaults by investigating the proper path to write their own gtkrc file under ~ .

[Brendan Kidwell (bkidwell)]

> gtk-theme-name = "MS-Windows"

Actually... it's not that simple. I had a look at this tonight, and I got bogged down with how GTK themes work. I played around a little and couldn't make head or tail of it. I think it looks just fine AS IT IS in Windows 2008 Server.

If anyone thinks they can help, please download my latest updates for the Windows installer from lp:~bkidwell/zim/pyzim-win-installer and suggest specific changes or send me a patch if you get it to work.

[Brendan Kidwell (bkidwell)]

Found fix here http://www.no-ack.org/2010/09/complete-guide-to-py2exe-for-pygtk.html (search for "gtk-theme-name"). Checked in; will send merge request to Jaap before 0.53 release.

[Brendan Kidwell (bkidwell)]

Actual fix is:

Where "." is the folder of zim.exe... create "./etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc" with this line of text
   gtk-theme-name = "MS-Windows"

[Jaap Karssenberg (jaap.karssenberg)]

Fix released in zim 0.53.