Re: gnome white font color and mono WinForm issue..

On 01/07/2010 11:43 AM, Carlos Alberto Cortez wrote:
> Ah! I missed that info.
>
> Buho: would you mind supplying the dark theme you are using? I already 
> tried several dark themes from art.gnome.org <http://art.gnome.org> 
> and the only control having issues was ToolStrip.
>
Sure, I'm using SliknesS-Dark from  
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/SlicknesS?content=71993 , and 
yeap the problem is all kind of controls, but the DESKTOP_SESSION=KDE 
nasty trick works perfectly ;-) , no ideal, but at least it keep me safe 
from the risky mono 2.6 update :-)

Mauricio
> Carlos.
>
> 2010/1/7 Stifu <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>
>
>     Mauricio: you could just add a runtime condition.
>     Like: if (Type.GetType("System.MonoType", false) != null) {
>     Form1.ForeColor
>     = Color.Black; }
>
>     Carlos: not just the ToolStrip, from what he says, but all controls.
>
>
>     Carlos Alberto wrote:
>     >
>     > Not in the last release sadly, as it was committed after the
>     release. So I
>     > take for granted is only happening with ToolStrip?
>     >
>     > One possible workaround is to set DESKTOP_SESSION to any string
>     starting
>     > with 'KDE' - this way our theme engine will try to detect the
>     KDE settings
>     > (will print a warning if it couldn't find the libs). This way
>     the winforms
>     > app will not be loading the gnome settings, and it should work
>     'fine'
>     > (remember to set this env var only in the terminal where you
>     execute your
>     > winforms app ;-) ) Try something like:
>     >
>     > env DESKTOP_SESSION=KDE mono MyApp.exe
>     >
>     > Carlos.
>     >
>     > 2010/1/7 [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>     <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>     >
>     >>  On 01/07/2010 11:05 AM, Carlos Alberto Cortez wrote:
>     >>
>     >> We had an issue but it was only happening for ToolStrip menus.
>     Is that
>     >> the
>     >> case, or is it happening with other controls as well?
>     >>
>     >> yeap, all kind of winform controls like texboxes, menus,
>     labels, etc...
>     >>
>     >> I remember testing extensively with dark themes and the only
>     issue was
>     >> related to ToolStrip (which has been fixed in 2.4/2.6/trunk,
>     but didn't
>     >> make
>     >> it in the version you have).
>     >>
>     >> As Stifu mentioned, you can force the controls using the ForeColor
>     >> property
>     >> (that applies as well for ToolStrip). Otherwise, there's no way
>     to force
>     >> our
>     >> theme engine to *not* detect the system colors unfortunately
>     (given a
>     >> gnome
>     >> session running).
>     >>
>     >> sadly is a complex and large app to change the code to force a
>     forecolor,
>     >> and is not ideal to change the code just for that since the
>     current code
>     >> works ok on windows with .net and themes, so it going to need
>     compiler
>     >> conditions, etc..
>     >>
>     >> So, this supose to be fixed in mono 2.6 then?
>     >>
>     >> thanks
>     >>
>     >> Mauricio
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>
>     >> Carlos.
>     >>
>     >> 2010/1/7 [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>     <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>     >>
>     >>> Hi guys,
>     >>>
>     >>> I have strage behaviour of mono Winform in a gnome theme that
>     put most
>     >>> of
>     >>> the font colour used by the system in white.
>     >>>
>     >>> The gnome theme is mostly black, so all of the fonts in the
>     desktop are
>     >>> white (gnome bar, menus and so on...), the problem is when I
>     run a mono
>     >>> winform app, since the mono winform windows don't take the
>     gnome theme
>     >>> (it
>     >>> don't get blackish it keeps the regular winform colors), but
>     the winform
>     >>> fonts it do take the white colour of the gnome theme and of
>     course white
>     >>> on
>     >>> a gray winfor window is hard to see/read...
>     >>>
>     >>> So, I know that mono winform currently don't apply the gnome
>     theme,
>     >>> that's
>     >>> ok, but I want that the winform don't take the font color
>     neither to
>     >>> keep
>     >>> the regular black font color in the gray winform window.
>     >>>
>     >>> any way to chage/force that?, or I forced to use a black font
>     theme...?
>     >>>
>     >>> I currently using mono and libgdiplus at version 2.4.2-3 on a
>     fedora 12
>     >>> machine...
>     >>>
>     >>> Thanks.
>     >>>
>     >>> Mauricio
>     >>>
>     >>>
>     >>> P.S: Please don't tell me to update to mono 2.6 to see if is
>     fixed :-)
>     >>>
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