Match GTK+3 theme to GTK+2

01micko proposed support for matching GTK+3 theme to GTK+2, integrated in the 'gtk-chtheme' application:
http://bkhome.org/archive/blog2/201303/ppm-gui-filtering.html

I have updated the 'gtk-chtheme' PET and the template in Woof, also put some code into '3builddistro'.

Woof commit:
http://bkhome.org/fossil/woof2.cgi/info/0879c4b3a1

So far, we have matching Adwaita theme for GTK+3 (PET created by thunor) and GTK+2 (PET created by 01micko):
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=695722#695722

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Comments

re gtk3 theming
Username: 01micko
Ha! Gtk3 theming is somewhat of a mess! http://igurublog.wordpress.com/tag/gtk3/ I think you've seen his blog (iirc). What I posted seems to not work on most themes. Anyway, there are complaints all over the place and one solution according to [url=https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GTK%2B]Archwiki is to copy the whole gtk-3.0 theme dir to ~/.config/ ! Not link. Apparently it can be written to that way and I guess that would present issues in a multiuser situation if linked, not sure if it would bother us? "[i]If it still does not change, delete old gtk-3.0 folder in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME and copy gtk-3.0 folder from /path/to/theme to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME. Example: $ rm -r ~/.config/gtk-3.0/ $ cp -r /usr/share/themes/Zukitwo/gtk-3.0/ ~/.config/ [/i]" fwiw ---- I reckon we could create a few simple puppified themes anyway. When the time comes..

DarkMint and DarkCold4
Username: vicmz
"These themes have GTK3 support, although they are dark somebody could like them, even make non-dark variations: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=632683#632683 I should test Raring and see if I can package some GTK3 themes from the web, when I find the time --school term has just started here.

improved chtheme
Username: 01micko
"pemasu and myself found that heaps of gtk3 themes were not working, so we decided to symlink the whole theme to ~/.config/gtk-3.0 and most work fine. Archwiki says to "copy" probably because of multiuser, so maybe if you are fido this fails. Some themes are big though. Anyway, I added basic support for our home grown themes with a few gross assumptions. Basically you get the background colour and that's it! Someone could improve it immensely but not me, the bone is there. :cool: Pet<-- http://01micko.com/packages/gtk_chtheme_hack-0.0.2.pet I realise about the other adjustments in woof.

Symlink to GTK3 theme
Username: BarryK
"OK, I have implemented symlink to the GTK+3 theme, as suggested by 01micko. Woof commit: http://bkhome.org/fossil/woof2.cgi/info/8bd0c8abe6 PET (12K): http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/pet_packages-common/gtk-chtheme-0.3.1-2-x86.pet

Tags: woof