From: Martin Sevior (msevior_at_seviorpc.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Nov 10 2003 - 20:58:35 EST
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 10:30, Chris Vine wrote:
> On Monday 10 November 2003 8:33 pm, Chris Vine wrote:
> > On Monday 10 November 2003 12:57 am, msevior_at_physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
> > > Hi Chris,
> > > The non-highligthing is probally due to a bug in your GTK+
> > > theme. We use colors from your GTK theme to set the highlight color so
> > > AbiWord blends in with the rest of your desktop. A simple test
> > > would be to try a diffferent theme.
> > >
> > > The "enable smart-quotes" has not worked for a while. Maybe we should
> > > remove it from the preferences.
> >
> > Ah, excellent, you are right. Abiword highlighting doesn't work with the
> > Geramic theme. It's odd, because other GNOME-2 programs like gedit and
> > gnumeric show highlighted text OK, so it is weird that this problem only
> > afflicts abiword.
> >
> > I like Geramic because it enables me to use a similar theme for both KDE
> > and GNOME applications. As smart quotes don't work either, I will use
> > another word processor. But thanks for your help.
>
> Sorry to reply to my own post. One other thing has occurred to me. If I
> compile a test program using a gtk_entry or gtk_textview widget (in other
> words, I know its provenance), highlighting of text in that widget shows
> correctly. So it seems to be something specific about the way in which
> abiword uses themes.
>
We should have a fallback if the theme doesn't give us a decent color.
AbiWord doesn't use GtkWidgets to display text. We need far more
flexibility and control than they provide.
I'll have a look at Geramic. I know that is apopular theme and it would
be a major mistake on our part if we're unusable to users using it.
Martin
> Chris.
>
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