inDigital
11-04-2002, 08:23 PM
I am not really new to Linux, but this the first time is years that I have really given it a go. I have decided to take the plunge and use Linux as my primary desktop OS, dual booting to XP for a little gaming and extended web development sessions (years of experience w/ Macromedia suite).
In any case, on to my question. I am running Red Hat 8.0 and want to add some new themes to Gnome. Since it is RH8 I have Gnome 2 and GTK+2. I can very easily install themes that use the deafault theme engine by just dragging the tarball into Theme Preferences window. But when I want to use a theme that requires an engine I am lost. I tried this with different ones I get the same issues, both ThinIce and Mist for GTK2. Here is what I do as per the README: untar theme into my home dir, ./configure, make, make install. Standard practice as far as compiling. Then the README stops there and says I should be done. Well, I obviously am not as the themes don't show up in the Theme Preference's Application tab.
Help, I want new widgets!
There are a couple of other nagging UI questions I want to slip in as well. Natilus is great, but the toolbar icons are *** ugly. I have found absolutely no way of changing these. Will these change when I change GTK2 theme engines? I saw on art.gnome.org that the buttons should have been included in the Nautilus themes, but I havn't seen one where the buttons changed from default. Are there image files somewhere than can be manually changed or are those embedded in some other file?
The other thing that is bugging me about Nautilus is the way it is handling my mouse. I did some tweaking and got the side buttons on my wireless Intellimouse Explorer to work for back and forward in Mozilla by mapping them to Alt-Left Arrow and Alt-Right Arrow. These are the same keyboard shortcuts that are in Nautilus but Nautilus doesn't recognize them, any ideas?
The other thing that is really counterintuitive is the Gnome menu. What is up with this thing? No drag-and-drop functionality? How about a configurator in X? A cryptic text file somewhere at least. Why do they make it so hard to change the items on this thing? Sorry for the sarcasm but this menu has left me a little frustrated.
Thanks in advance to any and all who reply.
P.S. If anyone wants info on getting the mouse to work with side buttons in Mozilla I'll post it in a reply.
In any case, on to my question. I am running Red Hat 8.0 and want to add some new themes to Gnome. Since it is RH8 I have Gnome 2 and GTK+2. I can very easily install themes that use the deafault theme engine by just dragging the tarball into Theme Preferences window. But when I want to use a theme that requires an engine I am lost. I tried this with different ones I get the same issues, both ThinIce and Mist for GTK2. Here is what I do as per the README: untar theme into my home dir, ./configure, make, make install. Standard practice as far as compiling. Then the README stops there and says I should be done. Well, I obviously am not as the themes don't show up in the Theme Preference's Application tab.
Help, I want new widgets!
There are a couple of other nagging UI questions I want to slip in as well. Natilus is great, but the toolbar icons are *** ugly. I have found absolutely no way of changing these. Will these change when I change GTK2 theme engines? I saw on art.gnome.org that the buttons should have been included in the Nautilus themes, but I havn't seen one where the buttons changed from default. Are there image files somewhere than can be manually changed or are those embedded in some other file?
The other thing that is bugging me about Nautilus is the way it is handling my mouse. I did some tweaking and got the side buttons on my wireless Intellimouse Explorer to work for back and forward in Mozilla by mapping them to Alt-Left Arrow and Alt-Right Arrow. These are the same keyboard shortcuts that are in Nautilus but Nautilus doesn't recognize them, any ideas?
The other thing that is really counterintuitive is the Gnome menu. What is up with this thing? No drag-and-drop functionality? How about a configurator in X? A cryptic text file somewhere at least. Why do they make it so hard to change the items on this thing? Sorry for the sarcasm but this menu has left me a little frustrated.
Thanks in advance to any and all who reply.
P.S. If anyone wants info on getting the mouse to work with side buttons in Mozilla I'll post it in a reply.