Description: As the name suggests, this little program lets you change your gtk+ 2.0 theme. The aim is to make theme preview and selection as slick as possible. Themes installed on the system are presented for selection and previewed on the fly. For a comprehensive demonstration there’s a large variety of widgets.
It was originally derived from Gtk Theme Switch, but what started out as a hack to remove various nuisances now shares no code whatsoever anymore with the original. This is why I decided to opt for a new name.Last changelog:
Changes in 0.3.1:
* Fixes for a number of a packaging glitches.
Changes in 0.3:
* Added writing gtk-font-name setting. * Added [Apply] button. * Added RPM .spec file. * Added this ChangeLog. * Another major code reorganization, some cleanup ensued. * Removed clearing of font upon theme selection change. * Removed notebook, moved preview panel onto main view, removed textarea from preview panel. * Renamed all references to "demo" to "preview." * Added blocking of main window when font dialog is shown. * Added disabling of font clear button; fixes segfault when clicked before any theme selected. * Added parsing of existing .gtkrc to preset widgets * Made all widgets in preview pane unfocussable with keyboard. * Thanks to help from Andre Costa and Pascal Bleser, RPM packages are now available.
Changes in 0.2:
* Massive code cleanup and reorganization. * Lots of minor improvements for the demo tab.
Changes in 0.1:
* Based on Gtk Theme Switch. * Tarball installation features removed. * Theme directories that do not contain a gtk+ theme are not offered for selection. * Theme names are presented in a scrollable list rather than a combobox. * The dialog window updates itself as a preview rather than opening a separate window. * Integrate the preview into the main window, putting the selection and preview controls in tabs. * [Preview] button removed, preview happens immediately when a selection is made. * Buttons renamed to [Ok] [Cancel]. * Use stock icons as much as possible.
it would be nice to choose the icon theme too, because gtk apps under gnome/xfce use gnome/xfce icon theme, but under kde they use the default gtk theme and it's orrible :) you can set the theme in .gtkrc with gtk-icon-theme-name
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To be honest, I'm not the original author of this tool. But I agree it would be very useful (I'm using fluxbox now).
it would be nice to choose the icon theme too, because gtk apps under gnome/xfce use gnome/xfce icon theme, but under kde they use the default gtk theme and it's orrible :) you can set the theme in .gtkrc with gtk-icon-theme-name