On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 1:00 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Send gnome-love mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-love > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of gnome-love digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. sorry, newb question about gtk themes in jhbuild environment > (Robert Park) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 18:47:57 -0700 > From: Robert Park <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [gnome-love] sorry, newb question about gtk themes in jhbuild > environment > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Ok, so, I've got my jhbuild environment all set up, my app is ported, > everything's running well, I'm pretty happy... BUT! > > Gtk3 is so ugly! It looks like Windows 95. Seriously, I want to puke. > I keep seeing all these sexy GNOME3 screenshots that look absolutely > nothing at all like the way default gtk3 looks like when I run it in > jhbuild. How do I configure which gtk3 theme is used, and what is the > name of that really nice one I always see (eg, in gnome-shell > screenshots). > > I did some googling but I must not be using the right terms because I > just can't find anything relevant (it's all ancient suggestions from > 2005 to use ancient programs that no longer exist). > > Thanks! > > -- > http://exolucere.ca > The default GTK3 theme is named Adwaita, and you might try to locate it in your jhbuild environment, copy it to your ~/.themes folder, set it up and then run a GTK3 window. And on a personal note, I don't think that "Gtk3 is so ugly! It looks like Windows 95. Seriously, I want to puke." is the best feedback, plus you are talking about GTK+3 with no theme, which of course looks basic. That's why theme designers were made for :).
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