[Gimp-user] How to design new GIMP themes from scratch

2013-02-05 Thread ID_Graphics
Hi guys, I've been using GIMP for years now, even professionally for the last year. There's one thing I still haven't ever done, and would love to do: designing a new interface for GIMP from scratch. I'm just not sure how to go about it. I could of course take the images of another theme and

[Gimp-user] How to design new GIMP themes from scratch

2013-02-05 Thread ID_Graphics
Oh and I forgot to mention: I am a Windows user, and have no knowledge about gtk or any other open-source related technical abbreviation what so ever. Which is probably the major part of my problem. -- ID_Graphics (via www.gimpusers.com/forums) ___

[Gimp-user] How to design new GIMP themes from scratch

2013-02-05 Thread devvv
Hi guys, I've been using GIMP for years now, even professionally for the last year. There's one thing I still haven't ever done, and would love to do: designing a new interface for GIMP from scratch. I'm just not sure how to go about it. I could of course take the images of another theme and

[Gimp-user] How to design new GIMP themes from scratch

2013-02-05 Thread ID_Graphics
Afaik you'll have to really get into GTK2 theming because GIMP 2.8 is mostly based on GTK2 to my knowledge - only some widgets are used from gtk3. However themeing in gtk2 and gtk3 is taking place differently. In GTK3 it's mostly CSS based while in gtk2 it's not. I however cannot give you more

[Gimp-user] How to design new GIMP themes from scratch

2013-02-05 Thread ID_Graphics
sadly not. I've been searching for that too for some days, then started to adopt an existing one and adjusted values (very little). also I found that many themes are just adoptions of other ones (much code was confusing because many people tried something out). I also can't say that I found many

Re: [Gimp-user] How to design new GIMP themes from scratch

2013-02-05 Thread scl
Hi ID_Graphics, as a start you could look around in GIMPs themes folder [1]. Most of the work is editing a GTK theme configuration file, the gtkrc. This is a text file. You'll need to read and understand it, but it's no rocket science. There's also a GMOME tutorial on theming [2] and lots of

[Gimp-user] How to design new GIMP themes from scratch

2013-02-05 Thread ID_Graphics
Hi ID_Graphics, as a start you could look around in GIMPs themes folder [1]. Most of the work is editing a GTK theme configuration file, the gtkrc. This is a text file. You'll need to read and understand it, but it's no rocket science. There's also a GMOME tutorial on theming [2] and lots of