Re: Shortcuts text colour and Command Center window problems on Puppy Linux

[Richard Shann]

On Sat, 2020-02-29 at 18:51 +0200, Lib Lists wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> thanks for your message.
> Answers below,
> 
[...]
> > That's very interesting to know that it is possible to get the
> > latest
> > Denemo on a Mac. What version of Denemo do you have working, and
> > where
> > did it come from?
> 
> Latest Denemo (version 2.3.2), compiled from source, downloaded from
> the git repository https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/denemo.git

great!

> 
> > 
> > > 
> > > However, there are a couple of problems (see attached
> > > screenshots):
> > > 
> > > 1) Is it possible to change the keyboard shortcuts text or the
> > > menu
> > > background colours (dark grey on dark blue)? I tried
> > > changing  the
> > > JWM
> > > theme but it didn't work (Screenshot_1).
> > 
> > The color of the keyboard shortcuts is hard wired, unfortunately,
> > and I
> > see from your picture that it doesn't work well with themes that
> > use a
> > dark background with light colored lettering. The menu background
> > color
> > and the color of the labels in the menus is not hard-wired by
> > Denemo
> > however, so theming should work for them. I've not explored how
> > themes
> > can be chosen under Gtk though so I can't really go beyond saying
> > it
> > should work :( Do other Gtk-based applications change appropriately
> > on
> > that virtual machine?
> 
> Hi, just tested with Abiword 
is that a Gtk based program (or Qt for example)?

> and the 'theme chooser' application and
> everything works correctly. However, Denemo menus don't change, only
> its title bar does.

Hmm, it sounds like there is more than one layer of theming here: your
window manager is being themed by your "theme chooser" but not actual
program - Gtk allows the user to theme the programs compiled with it
and it comes with a number of themes to choose from. But I haven't
experimented with it (or if I have it was long enough ago for me to
forget...).

> 
> > > 
> > > 2) When I click 'Open Command Center on this command', the
> > > Command
> > > Center window appears without title bar, and the only way to
> > > close
> > > the
> > > window is from the View menu (Screenshot_2).
> > 
> > The appearance of the window without decorations is presumably some
> > bug
> > in the Gtk version you are compiled or running with... I can be
> > pretty
> > certain Denemo does not request a window without decorations for
> > the
> > Command Center.
> 
> I've used libgtk-3-dev_3.22.30

I see I have 3.22.11 which I guess is what my Debian oldstable comes
with.

> 
> > 
> > >  However, the behaviour
> > > happens only the first time and on the following times the title
> > > bar
> > > appears. Unfortunately then the menu from which 'Open Command
> > > Center'
> > > was invoked remains visible (Screenshot_3).
> > 
> > I tested this (on Debian) and the menu remains visible but can be
> > dismissed by clicking off the menu (e.g. clicking on the Command
> > Center
> > itself). Does that not happen with your version?
> 
> Yes, the same happens here.

ok, then that is the "normal" behavior - perhaps it could pop-down the
menu when that option is chosen, it would need a bug filing against it
if it is behavior that bothers you...

HTH Richard