On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> On 21 Dec 2000, Lars Clausen wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I use very dark Gtk theme (SatinBlack). All icons that use black are
> > > almost invisible on the very dark "buttons" they are placed on. I'm
> > > going to modify dia so that it will use default text forgeground color
> > > or color of text foreground of some special named widget defined in
> > > .gtkrc (e.g. "icon-foreground-color") instead of black for icons. Would
> > > you accept the patch that adds this functionality? If yes, could you
> > > please tell me the approximate name of the file and function that
> > > creates "palette" icons so that I won't need to grep around all dia
> > > tree?
> >
> > The icons are stored as pixmaps (.xpm) files in pixmaps directories,
> > e.g. for the standard tools, they are in objects/standard/pixmaps.
> > However, most of them are not generated, so it'll require some picture
> > trickery to make them another color. The generated icons are from
> > app/color_area.c, linewidth_area.c and lineprops_area.c. If you can get
> > all this to work well, I'm sure a patch will be appreciated.
>
> Thank you for the explanation.
> Where do the icons get loaded (where gdk_pixmap_colormap_create_from_xpm_d is
> called that is relevant to icons) ?
Most of the pixmaps are compiled into the binary. There are no special
colour transformations done on them (except for handling the shape mask).
Probably the easiest way to fix this would be to go through the images and
put a light grey (or other light colour) border around the images.
James.
