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Fix our custom styles under KDE and for people using gtk-chtheme
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We have a custom RC file defining various styles we need, and we want
the user to be able to override them (e.g. if they want -- or need --
other colors).  Fair enough, one would simply call gtk_rc_parse() with
the appropriate filename.  However, the styling rules applies in the
order they are loaded, then if we load our styles after GTK has loaded
the user's ones we'd override them.

There are 2 solutions to fix this:
1) set our styles' priority to something with lower than "user"
   (actually "theme" priority because rules precedence are first
   calculated depending on the priority no matter of how precise the
   rules is, so we need to override the theme).
2) prepend our custom style to GTK's list while keeping priority to
   user (which is the default), so it gets loaded before real user's
   ones and so gets overridden by them.

One would normally go for 1 because it's ways simpler and requires less
code: you just have to add the priorities to your styles, which is a
matter of adding a few ":theme" in the RC file.  However, KDE being a
bitch it doesn't set the gtk-theme-name but rather directly includes
the style to use in a user gtkrc file, which makes the theme have
"user" priority, hence overriding our styles.  So, we cannot set
priorities in the RC file if we want to support running under KDE,
which pretty much leave us with no choice but to go with solution 2,
which unfortunately requires writing ugly code since GTK don't have a
gtk_rc_prepend_default_file() function.  Thank you very much KDE.

Though, as a side benefit it also makes the code work with people using
gtk-chtheme, which also found it funny to include the theme in the user
RC file.
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14 changes: 7 additions & 7 deletions data/geany.gtkrc
Expand Up @@ -7,21 +7,21 @@ style "geany-close-tab-button-style" {
xthickness = 0
ythickness = 0
}
widget "*.geany-close-tab-button" style:theme "geany-close-tab-button-style"
widget "*.geany-close-tab-button" style "geany-close-tab-button-style"

# use monospaced font in search entries for easier reading of regexp (#1907117)
style "geany-monospace" {
font_name = "Monospace"
}
widget "GeanyDialogSearch.*.GtkEntry" style:theme "geany-monospace"
widget "GeanyDialogSearch.*.geany-search-entry-no-match" style:theme "geany-monospace"
widget "GeanyDialogSearch.*.GtkEntry" style "geany-monospace"
widget "GeanyDialogSearch.*.geany-search-entry-no-match" style "geany-monospace"

# set red background for GtkEntries showing unmatched searches
style "geany-search-entry-no-match-style" {
base[NORMAL] = "#ffff66666666"
text[NORMAL] = "#ffffffffffff"
}
widget "*.geany-search-entry-no-match" style:theme "geany-search-entry-no-match-style"
widget "*.geany-search-entry-no-match" style "geany-search-entry-no-match-style"

# document status colors
style "geany-document-status-changed-style" {
Expand All @@ -36,6 +36,6 @@ style "geany-document-status-readonly-style" {
fg[NORMAL] = "#00007fff0000"
fg[ACTIVE] = "#00007fff0000"
}
widget "*.geany-document-status-changed" style:theme "geany-document-status-changed-style"
widget "*.geany-document-status-disk-changed" style:theme "geany-document-status-disk-changed-style"
widget "*.geany-document-status-readonly" style:theme "geany-document-status-readonly-style"
widget "*.geany-document-status-changed" style "geany-document-status-changed-style"
widget "*.geany-document-status-disk-changed" style "geany-document-status-disk-changed-style"
widget "*.geany-document-status-readonly" style "geany-document-status-readonly-style"
49 changes: 49 additions & 0 deletions src/main.c
Expand Up @@ -969,6 +969,52 @@ static const gchar *get_locale(void)
}


#if ! GTK_CHECK_VERSION(3, 0, 0)
/* This prepends our own gtkrc file to the list of RC files to be loaded by GTK at startup.
* This function *has* to be called before gtk_init().
*
* We have a custom RC file defining various styles we need, and we want the user to be
* able to override them (e.g. if they want -- or need -- other colors). Fair enough, one
* would simply call gtk_rc_parse() with the appropriate filename. However, the styling
* rules applies in the order they are loaded, then if we load our styles after GTK has
* loaded the user's ones we'd override them.
*
* There are 2 solutions to fix this:
* 1) set our styles' priority to something with lower than "user" (actually "theme"
* priority because rules precedence are first calculated depending on the priority
* no matter of how precise the rules is, so we need to override the theme).
* 2) prepend our custom style to GTK's list while keeping priority to user (which is the
* default), so it gets loaded before real user's ones and so gets overridden by them.
*
* One would normally go for 1 because it's ways simpler and requires less code: you just
* have to add the priorities to your styles, which is a matter of adding a few ":theme" in
* the RC file. However, KDE being a bitch it doesn't set the gtk-theme-name but rather
* directly includes the style to use in a user gtkrc file, which makes the theme have
* "user" priority, hence overriding our styles. So, we cannot set priorities in the RC
* file if we want to support running under KDE, which pretty much leave us with no choice
* but to go with solution 2, which unfortunately requires writing ugly code since GTK
* don't have a gtk_rc_prepend_default_file() function. Thank you very much KDE.
*
* Though, as a side benefit it also makes the code work with people using gtk-chtheme,
* which also found it funny to include the theme in the user RC file. */
static void setup_gtk2_styles(void)
{
gchar **gtk_files = gtk_rc_get_default_files();
gchar **new_files = g_malloc(sizeof *new_files * (g_strv_length(gtk_files) + 2));
guint i = 0;

new_files[i++] = g_build_filename(app->datadir, "geany.gtkrc", NULL);
for (; *gtk_files; gtk_files++)
new_files[i++] = g_strdup(*gtk_files);
new_files[i] = NULL;

gtk_rc_set_default_files(new_files);

g_strfreev(new_files);
}
#endif


gint main(gint argc, gchar **argv)
{
GeanyDocument *doc;
Expand All @@ -990,6 +1036,9 @@ gint main(gint argc, gchar **argv)
memset(&ui_widgets, 0, sizeof(UIWidgets));

setup_paths();
#if ! GTK_CHECK_VERSION(3, 0, 0)
setup_gtk2_styles();
#endif
#ifdef ENABLE_NLS
main_locale_init(GEANY_LOCALEDIR, GETTEXT_PACKAGE);
#endif
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5 changes: 1 addition & 4 deletions src/ui_utils.c
Expand Up @@ -2180,10 +2180,7 @@ static void init_custom_style(void)
g_object_unref(css);
g_free(css_file);
#else
gchar *gtkrc_file = g_build_filename(app->datadir, "geany.gtkrc", NULL);

gtk_rc_parse(gtkrc_file);
g_free(gtkrc_file);
/* see setup_gtk2_styles() in main.c */
#endif
}

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