Re: Showing highlighted text

From: Martin Sevior (msevior_at_seviorpc.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Nov 10 2003 - 20:58:35 EST

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    On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 10:30, Chris Vine wrote:
    > On Monday 10 November 2003 8:33 pm, Chris Vine wrote:
    > > On Monday 10 November 2003 12:57 am, msevior_at_physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
    > > > Hi Chris,
    > > > The non-highligthing is probally due to a bug in your GTK+
    > > > theme. We use colors from your GTK theme to set the highlight color so
    > > > AbiWord blends in with the rest of your desktop. A simple test
    > > > would be to try a diffferent theme.
    > > >
    > > > The "enable smart-quotes" has not worked for a while. Maybe we should
    > > > remove it from the preferences.
    > >
    > > Ah, excellent, you are right. Abiword highlighting doesn't work with the
    > > Geramic theme. It's odd, because other GNOME-2 programs like gedit and
    > > gnumeric show highlighted text OK, so it is weird that this problem only
    > > afflicts abiword.
    > >
    > > I like Geramic because it enables me to use a similar theme for both KDE
    > > and GNOME applications. As smart quotes don't work either, I will use
    > > another word processor. But thanks for your help.
    >
    > Sorry to reply to my own post. One other thing has occurred to me. If I
    > compile a test program using a gtk_entry or gtk_textview widget (in other
    > words, I know its provenance), highlighting of text in that widget shows
    > correctly. So it seems to be something specific about the way in which
    > abiword uses themes.
    >

    We should have a fallback if the theme doesn't give us a decent color.
    AbiWord doesn't use GtkWidgets to display text. We need far more
    flexibility and control than they provide.

    I'll have a look at Geramic. I know that is apopular theme and it would
    be a major mistake on our part if we're unusable to users using it.

    Martin

    > Chris.
    >

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