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Bug 121866 - symbolic color names in theme images
symbolic color names in theme images
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: metacity
Classification: Other
Component: themes
unspecified
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: future
Assigned To: Metacity maintainers list
Metacity maintainers list
Depends on:
Blocks: 102547
 
 
Reported: 2003-09-09 23:18 UTC by Gregory Merchan
Modified: 2020-11-07 12:36 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Gregory Merchan 2003-09-09 23:18:05 UTC 
The XPM format allows for symbolic names interpreted at runtime. It would be
nice to be able to use this for theme images. If the symbolic names can't be
metacity-style color specifications, then a named color element might be
needed in the theme format.

It seems to be impossible to get an exact match for gtk theme colored images
with the current spec.
Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2003-09-10 02:26:08 UTC 
I sympathize with the problem, but not a fan of using XPM as the solution.

You could probably get the effect by somehow overlaying a series of
colorized images but sounds hard.

Anyway, should be marked blocker of that "revise theme format" bug.
Comment 2 Jeremy Nickurak 2009-12-14 02:50:36 UTC 
Too bad this hasn't seen activity in 5 years...

I like the idea a lot. In particular, it would be nice to do at a gtk level. GTK apps could have a set of colors associated with the theme, which metacity and other gtk-using applications could use.
Comment 3 André Klapper 2020-11-07 12:36:18 UTC 
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If you still use metacity and if you are still requesting this feature in a currently supported version of GNOME (currently that would be 3.38), then please feel free to report it at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/metacity/-/issues/

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