[Pan-users] Re: Pan 1.33, Windows XP and GTK themes

[Petr Kovar]

Gary, Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:42:47 +0000 (UTC):

> On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:44:39 +0100, Steve Davies wrote:
> 
> > Are you both running the same 0.133 build? The latest git-based Win32
> > build (090727) includes significantly newer libraries than the vanilla
> > 0.133 build. This may be either fixing or breaking themes.
> > 
> > Let me know.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Steve
> 
> I did not have any GTK apps on my PC so I first installed
> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gtk-win/gtk2-
> runtime-2.16.4-2009-07-08-ash.exe?download and the themes found at
> http:// downloads.sourceforge.net/gtk-win/gtk2-themes-2008-10-22-ash.exe?
> download.
> 
> Next I downloaded PAN from
> http://paninstall.googlepages.com/pan-0.133.git090727.exe and installed
> it.    Next I exited Pan and changed my theme using the GTK2 theme
> selector.   Restarted Pan and it had no effect.  
> 
> This AM I uninstalled everything and started from scratch.  I installed
> GTK, then the themes and next installed Pan.  Changing themes still has
> no effect.  :-/
> 
> The only odd thing, if you can call it that, is that whenever I make a
> change and save it in the theme selector it prompts me asking if I want
> to overwrite my .gtk2rc-2.0 file but I suspect that is normal.

Gary, try searching for gtk2rc-2.0, preferably in your user profile. It
seems to me like there are multiple configuration files present on your
system, and GTK+ reads the unchanged one when initializing the pan
executable.

Best,
Petr Kovar