[maemo-developers] Gtk widget background, gradient, or image possible ?

[From: Benoît HERVIER]

Also, how to fix the bg color of a button when this one have the focus ?

example (the date / view switcher button in the top right corner) :
http://khertan.net/poubelle/screenshot09.png

Thanks

2008/12/4 Benoît HERVIER <khertan at khertan.net>:
> Hum, in fact i already don't use a real Gtk Toolbar as i don't like
> the hildon toolbar ... :) so i  make my own with a bit of gtk.Button,
> gtk.Frame, gtk.Alignment, Vbox and HBox and some piece of gtk.Image
> and gtk Label in the button container...
>
> So theming by touching rc ... will make things for all other widgets ...
>
> No other way to put gradient in bg instead of a sample color ?
>
> ps : And no, setting 256 frame which have their own color isn't a
> solution for a gradient :)
>
> 2008/12/4 Markku Vire <markku.vire at movial.fi>:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The background of the toolbar itself can be changed, since GtkToolbar
>> calls the theme engine to paint the background. So, everything good at
>> this point.
>>
>> The bad thing is that Maemo environment usually embeds the
>> toolbar into HildonWindow and the toolbar borders that you can see are
>> part of the HildonWindow theme. So, in order to theme the whole bottom
>> bar, you need an application specific theme that changes HildonWindow
>> and GtkToolbar themes. Of course this approach would work only with one
>> desktopwide theme at a time :(
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> -Markku-
>>
>> Benoît HERVIER wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> While i'm trying to design a new UI for the next version of mCalendar,
>>> i got some question without answer at this time
>>>
>>> I've done an UI with some background on the toolbar for example. But
>>> to have somethings more "glossy". I would like to do a gradient for
>>> the background instead of a unique color. Do you a way to do that ?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>
>>
>
>
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> Benoît HERVIER - http://khertan.net/
>



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