Mattias Gärtner wrote: > Zitat von Lee Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: >>> Lee Jenkins wrote: >>>> 1. Is is a known limitation of gtk1 that you cannot change the form's >> color? >>>> I've tried to do this, but this (at design time) has no effect. >>> One of many reasons why I started fpGUI. When we still used LCL & GTK1 >>> (1.5-2 years ago), I was told it is not native behaviour and will not be >>> fixed. Don't ask me what Linux native behaviour is, because every second >>> Linux app behaves differently. :) A work around was to create some >>> custom theme file, but that was not a solution for us. >>> >>> I have no idea what's the state of LCL & GTK1 at the moment, regarding >>> this issue. But from your comment, it seems nothing has changed. >>> >>>> 2. With gkt2, the form's color does change with what it was set to at >> design >>> I can't comment on GTK2. 1.5 years ago, GTK2 was totally unusable. >>> >> Hmmm. That's a bit unfortunate. > > Nowadays I prefer gtk2 above gtk1. gtk2 is slower, but there are more things > that work better under gtk2 than the other way.
I think gtk2 looks much better as well. > >> I get the idea of theming and centralizing the >> user feel, etc but that doesn't take into account task based applications. > > What theming? Theming by the programmer, or theming by the user/target > platform? > I assumed that the initial flicker that I see is caused by the forms default color being painted before the LCL gets a chance to paint over it again. I assumed the default color is based on whatever theme is in effect for the current user. > >> I've noticed also that other things like MouseDown and MouseUp seem to act >> differently (kind of sluggish) in GTK1/2 or maybe its Gnome in general. >> That's a show stopper for me. > > Please create a bug report. > I will, but I am thinking its something in gtk because even other none lazarus apps seem sluggish, just that lazarus gtk2 apps seem to add some sluggishness over top of that. -- Warm Regards, Lee "When my company started out, we were really, really, really, really small. Now...we're just really small." _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
