#236 Visual Progress Bar Configurable Colors

[John Foerch]

I did read comments in visual_progress.c that mention
that the colors of the download progress meter should
be configurable. I want to suggest that they be
configurable as a style in gtkrc (or gtkrc-2.0) theme
rather than as settings within the program itself.

[Christian Biere]

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Could you elaborate on the reasons? I think it's much
simpler and consistent to use GUI properties.

[Christian Biere]

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Could you elaborate on the reasons? I think it's much
simpler and consistent to use GUI properties.

[John Foerch]

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Is the progress meter technically a widget? I have various
theme customizations in my gtkrc* files for gtk-gnutella and
other gtk programs. So my line of thought is that if I
could customize this progress meter in the theme files I
already have, that is one less file to hunt down for backup
of my themes. If the progress meter is not a widget, might
it be useful as one?

[Hans de Graaff]

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The progress bar is not actually a widget. We just draw the
graphics on a blank canvas. I don't think that it makes
sense to make this into a widget, since it is quite specific
to the circumstances of downloading a p2p file in gtk-gnutella.

When I get around to making the colors configurable I'd be
happy to have a look at doing this as part of a style.
Having no knowledge on gtkrc styles yet I'm concerned to put
gtk-gnutella specific settings into another file, though,
and I do not think it is likely that all the colors we use
map onto generic, abstract, colors in the style.