[ Forwarded from http://bugs.debian.org/296939 ]

"In trying to port wmakerconf from GTK+ 1.2 to GTK+ 2.x, I have come across
the problem that wmakerconf no longer understands color strings of
the format rgb:RR/GG/BB (where RR, GG and BB are integers in hex format).
The reason is that gdk_color_parse() was formerly a wrapper around
XParseColor() and is now a wrapper around pango_color_parse().  Further
investigation reveals that pango_color_parse() has no mechanism to understand
this format of color specification.

This is annoying for two reasons: first, functionality present in an
earlier version of GTK+ has been lost for no good reason.  Second, the GTK+
API reference for version 2.8 is now misleading, since it untruthfully
states of gdk_color_parse():

	The text string can be in any of the forms accepted by XParseColor.

Please add back this functionality to pango_color_parse().  I'll submit
a patch myself if I have time in the next few days; otherwise, it doesn't
seem like a difficult job."

and

"I've spent a few minutes to write the long-ago promised patch, in case
you want to submit it upstream.  However, by this point I guess any
package that was going to be ported to gtk+2 already has been, so the
pango maintainers should feel free to downgrade this bug to "wishlist"
or close it if they want."

I'm attaching the patch, written by Kevin B. McCarty <kmccarty@Princeton.EDU>.