Re: [K3d-development] Linux gtkrc file.

[Rene J. <cen...@ta...>]

Bart Janssens wrote:
> On Saturday 17 March 2007 12:20, Rene Jensen wrote:
>   
>> Actually I was thinking of something a bit closer to my needs and
>> working discipline: Tinker a bit with the gtkrc file. The UI would not
>> suffer too much from a little less wasted space on margins and a smaller
>> font.
>>
>> Could somebody get me started on this, please? The only gtkrc file in
>> the project is in /distribution/win32...
>>     
>
> A custom gtkrc file should be automatically created upon the first K-3D run in 
> the same directory as where your options.k3d file resides ($HOME/.k3d). I've 
> never tried modifying this, though.
>
>   

Now I remember what black art GTK theming really is.

Well, as most of you already knew, there's not a lot you _can_ do with 
gtk. The following contents of
~/.k3d/gtkrc helped me a bit, but important step is to lower the 
font-size, I'm afraid. I'll try to find the remaining nagging borders 
and paddings if I can. If font size becomes something like 6, one can 
clearly see that the distance between list rows is controlled by more 
than just font size. Icon size, perhaps?

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# You can add your own K-3D-specific GTK styles here.

# Un-comment this to modify icon sizes.
# gtk-icon-sizes = 
"mini-commander-icon=24,24:print-manager=64,64:panel-button=32,32:gtk-dnd=48,48:gtk-menu=32,32:panel-menu=48,48:gtk-large-toolbar=48,48:gtk-small-toolbar=32,32:gtk-button=32,32:gtk-dialog=64,64"

# Add styles that will apply to all K-3D widgets here.

style "k3d-style"
{
  font_name = "sans 8"
  GtkButton::inner_border = { 0, 0, 0, 0 }
  GtkButton::default_border = { 0, 0, 0, 0 }
  GtkButton::default_outside_border = { 0, 0, 0, 0 }
  GtkTreeView::vertical-padding = 0
  GtkTreeView::horizontal-padding = 0
  GtkWidget::separator_width = 0
  GtkWidget::separator_height = 0
  GtkWidget::focus_padding = 0
  GtkWidget::focus_line_width = 1
  GtkWidget::interior_focus = false
}

class "*" style "k3d-style"

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Got some of those from Ardour2's gtkrc file. Paul Davies seems to have 
found a pretty nice set of colors for his well-made UI.

Apart from that, I don't think there is anything to do but create new 
widgets for key parts. I.e. the visualization pipeline editor an such 
matters.


Regards,
Rene