PupClockset-2.7
gtk style change
Dear radky,
The prog is very nice except for one little thing: you change the gtk theme on the fly - which I find pretty ugly, unnecessary and, most importantly, unacceptable for new users since the restore does not work properly if you exit via the window manager's (icewm) close button - it leaves the wrong theme and font in the gtkrc file. I noted this "feature" in the last version but just commented out the "if" lines that did that. I just did that again after installing the new version. Newbie users will not understand what happend to their theme settings after running the program and will not know the niceties of gtk widgets and their settings files. Can't you get rid of that theme-changing business?
With kind regards,
vovchik
The prog is very nice except for one little thing: you change the gtk theme on the fly - which I find pretty ugly, unnecessary and, most importantly, unacceptable for new users since the restore does not work properly if you exit via the window manager's (icewm) close button - it leaves the wrong theme and font in the gtkrc file. I noted this "feature" in the last version but just commented out the "if" lines that did that. I just did that again after installing the new version. Newbie users will not understand what happend to their theme settings after running the program and will not know the niceties of gtk widgets and their settings files. Can't you get rid of that theme-changing business?
With kind regards,
vovchik
Re: gtk style change
Dear vovchik,vovchik wrote:The prog is very nice except for one little thing: you change the gtk theme on the fly - which I find pretty ugly, unnecessary and, most importantly, unacceptable for new users since the restore does not work properly if you exit via the window manager's (icewm) close button - it leaves the wrong theme and font in the gtkrc file. I noted this "feature" in the last version but just commented out the "if" lines that did that. I just did that again after installing the new version. Newbie users will not understand what happend to their theme settings after running the program and will not know the niceties of gtk widgets and their settings files. Can't you get rid of that theme-changing business?
I have tested PupClockset in most derivatives of Puppy 4 and 5, but not in older derivatives of Puppy 2 or 3. Concerning the code in question, PupClockset-1.3.1 checks for the existence of $HOME/.gtkrc-2.0 and, if absent, will create a standard gtkrc-2.0 file from PupClockset's "gtkrc-2.0-restore file" - which includes the basic Gradient-grey gtk theme. This code is "not" applied unless the native $HOME/.gtkrc-2.0 file is absent or if the reference to the user “font_name
gtk theme
Dear radky,
Thanks for taking up the little problem. In my case, when exiting via window close (Lucid 520), I lost a number of gtk vars, which then had an effect on my icon theme and on all QT4 progs. Recent versions of QT4, when operating with the GTK engine, examine .gtkrc-2.0 for the theme/icon variables. If not found, Clearview or something like that is used. This is mine:
I keep most other GTK settings in .gtkrc-2.0.mine, fortunately, but QT4 stubbornly refuses to read that file, so I need that info in .gtkrc-2.0. I remember that Zigbert once did something similar with his stopwatch script and I also, for a bit, lost my theme and other settings.
Apart from this gtk thing, the clock setting part is brilliant and saves people from examining man pages, so thanks.
With kind regards,
vovchik
Thanks for taking up the little problem. In my case, when exiting via window close (Lucid 520), I lost a number of gtk vars, which then had an effect on my icon theme and on all QT4 progs. Recent versions of QT4, when operating with the GTK engine, examine .gtkrc-2.0 for the theme/icon variables. If not found, Clearview or something like that is used. This is mine:
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include "/usr/share/themes/MacOS-X/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"
gtk-theme-name="MacOS-X"
gtk-icon-theme-name="Mac4Lin_Icons_v1.0"
gtk-font-name="DejaVu Sans 13"
gtk-toolbar-style=2
Apart from this gtk thing, the clock setting part is brilliant and saves people from examining man pages, so thanks.
With kind regards,
vovchik
Odd.... still get this:
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Hi DaveS,DaveS wrote:Odd.... still get this:
What happens when you download other .pet files -- from Smokey's site or from other hosts, or if you use a different download manager?
Thanks pemasu. That's good news.pemasu wrote:I made woof build using your latest PupClock. I think that your pinstall.sh script worked ok.
OK, its Opera that changes the extension. Firefox downloads it as a .pet. Seems to happen only with this site though, other .pets from other sources download unchanged. Depressing Opera should do this.radky wrote:Hi DaveS,DaveS wrote:Odd.... still get this:
What happens when you download other .pet files -- from Smokey's site or from other hosts, or if you use a different download manager?
Just re-naming the file to *.pet fixes it though.
Spup Frugal HD and USB
Root forever!
Root forever!
PupClockset doesn't appear to support Mick's latest Slacko 5.3.0.1 which I believe is the latest JWM.
Regards,
Jim
Regards,
Jim
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