To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=106620 Issue #|106620 Summary|Bad way handling GTK+ Themes Component|ui Version|OOo 3.1 Platform|PC URL| OS/Version|Linux Status|UNCONFIRMED Status whiteboard| Keywords| Resolution| Issue type|DEFECT Priority|P2 Subcomponent|ui Assigned to|uineedsconfirm Reported by|tscheka
------- Additional comments from [email protected] Thu Nov 5 01:56:17 +0000 2009 ------- So far OpenOffice is able to take over behaviour of the Theme which is set through the environment, no matter if you were in Gnome/XFCE/... So far it does pick up what is set up globally, well no problem here. But what, if I want to start it with a custom GTK+ theme, like I already can do with plenty of apps? For Pidgin for example I modified the desktop entry (aka shortcut) with this line: Exec="env GTK2_RC_FILES=/usr/share/themes/Xfce-dusk/gtk-2.0/gtkrc pidgin" and it works as suspected like in this screenshot: http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/8523/68366264.png Sadly, this ain't possible with OpenOffice. And people having a dark theme have reasons using custom themes for thertain apps, as sometimes dark themes aren't appropriate, like you might see here (barely readable,and this applies to menus, too): http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/2953/77144494.png For things like Browsers and Office-Suites, much people using dark desktop themes prefer "normal" themes, like this: http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/4126/26669009.png ... this is obviously a better working environment but this isn't working without an impact on all GTK+-Apps. I would expect that OpenOffice takes the Environment Variables as near to all GTK+-Apps would do. env GTK2_RC_FILES=/usr/share/themes/Xfce-dusk/gtk-2.0/gtkrc ooffice -calc should work and for me this is clearly a bug with OpenOffice.org. Sadly, I found no workaround or hack, nor I am able to find the lines of code which should be changed. The only thing i found was this blog where it was discussed before (firefox seems to have the same problem): http://urukrama.wordpress.com/2008/07/13/setting-a-custom-gtk-theme-for-specific-applications/ Would love to see that fixed as I depend on OOo thanks :-) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
