[sylpheed:34870] Re: Fw: how to change color and font of sylpheed (even after reading FAQ)

[Hiroyuki Yamamoto]

Hello,

On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 07:59:34 -0700 (PDT)
Globe Trotter <itsme_410 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> >  From: Antonio Ospite <ospite at studenti.unina.it>
> > > Subject: Re: [sylpheed:34866] Re: Fw: how to change
> > color and font of sylpheed (even after reading FAQ)
> > > To: sylpheed at sraoss.jp
> > > Cc: "Globe Trotter" <itsme_410 at yahoo.com>
> > > Date: Monday, October 31, 2011, 8:13 AM
> > > On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 20:25:06 -0700
> > > (PDT)
> > > Globe Trotter <itsme_410 at yahoo.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks very much! Does that mean that it is not
> > > possible to change the
> > > > font and color of the panels for syplheed only
> > (and
> > > not other
> > > > applications)? Is that true?
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Yes, unless Gtk provides a way to define
> > application-local
> > > styles.
> > > But I don't know if it does in 2.x series, I think
> > I've
> > > seen something
> > > like that in 3.x tho.
>  
>  I wonder if this is true, since claws-mail allows this (and
>  has allowed this) for as long as it has existed (even
>  previously in its sylpheed-claws incarnation). As my
>  original post indicated, in claws-mail, .gtkrc-2.0 has to be
>  put in the .claws-mail directory. 
>  
>  Actually, come to think of it, this was allowed even in
>  GTK-1. The way it is done there, is to specify
>  .gtkrc-application-name in the $HOME directory. So, I guess
>  this either appears to be a shortcoming in sylpheed then, or
>  we have not stumbled upon the answer?

Sylpheed also reads ~/.sylpheed-2.0/gtkrc .
(since sylpheed 0.x)

-- 
Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp>