


Now, isn't this theme switcher better than the last? It is great for those like me who like to come up with their own themes since you can edit the file live on notepad++ and just switch between themes on the list to see your changes take effect. I like to get my hand dirty with these stuff, but I'm one of those that learns as it goes. NOTE: I hope my explanation is clear enough. If you don't do this, the change maybe or maybe not apply, but they always do apply if you do check the box. TIP: When applying a theme, make sure to check "Apply for all users" checkbox so that the changes are made to Pidgin's private GTK+ runtime. Compatible with GTK+ versions 2.10 through 2.16. Contains plenty of themes and theme engines, and GTK+ Preference Tool version 0.4.1. gtk2-themes-ash.exe - GTK+ Themes installer.
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Now when everything has been transferred to is rightful place do a refresh and take it for a test run.Ĭlick on gtk2_prefs and you should see the theme switcher. Note: This version includes the themes and theme engines, so you dont need to download them separately. a) where the GTK versions arent the same, resulting in a hundred or something prompts related to libglib2-0-0.dll when loading GIMP. This is problematic between the latest versions of GIMP 2.4.6 (GTK+ 2.12.9) and Pidgin 2.4.3 (GTK+ 2.12.8 rev. X:\PCPortableApps\PidginPortable\App\Pidgin\Gtk\bin GIMP includes its own GTK+ but uses the system-wide one if its available, in favour of its own. NOTE: yup, all those folders are the themes.Ĭontains the theme switcher. The directory we need to use is found at "X:\PidginPortable\App\Pidgin\Gtk"įile under the "lib" and "Share" folder are to be transfer to their respective equivalent folder under the PidginPortable directory.įiles on "gtk2-themes-win32_bin\lib\gtk-2.0\2.10.0\engines"Īre to be transfer to: "X:\PidginPortable\App\Pidgin\Gtk\lib\gtk-2.0\2.10.0\engines"įiles on: "gtk2-themes-win32_bin\share\themes"Īre to be transfer to: "X:\PCPortableApps\PidginPortable\App\Pidgin\Gtk\share\themes" Now in the X:\PidginPortable directory you will find two different folders that share the same name but in different letter casing. ex: Desktop or some other easy to find place in your PC.

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*** If anyone has a fix I would love to see it, I can't get it working using any of Pidgins suggestions or any of my own tinkering.Īs you stated on your previous post, download the "GTK+ Themes" and "GTK+ Theme Switcher" zip files and extract them to a temporary directory. What I had to go through to get this working correctly was not feasible by any standards. Python 2.5+ GTK 2.10+ (for gtk.RecentManager) PyGTK. Progress on implementing Zeitgeist scrubbing here is tracked in issue 1. Important: The Unity and GNOME Shell dashboards use their own history system named Zeitgeist with a less secure privacy tool already available. I am looking around for solutions now and will post as soon as I find one that is simple for most users. Anything containing Firefox, GIMP, Inkscape, Pidgin, gVim, etc. If you follow their recommendation you will notice when you try and run the theme selector exe you will get tons of missing dll errors. You probably will want to use the "Apply for all users" checkbox so that the changes are made to Pidgin's private GTK+ runtime. You can now run the gtk2_prefs.exe applications to choose a theme.
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Copy the gtk2_prefs.exe from the GTK Theme Switcher zip file into your \Gtk\bin directory. Note that we don't recommend you use the GTK+ installer he distributes unless you know what you're doing and have a good reason for doing so.ĭownload the GTK+ Themes and GTK+ Theme Switcher zip files and extract them to a temporary directory.Ĭopy the lib and share directories from the GTK+ Themes zip file into your \Gtk directory (you want to merge those with the existing lib and share directories). There is an easy way to use the GTK+ theme binaries and theme switcher that Alexander Shaduri maintains. As of version 2.7.0, Pidgin ships with a private GTK+ runtime and doesn't include extra themes or a GUI theme switching application.
