[Users] Color themes / lack of multithreading

[saeed98 at gmx.com]

On 28/06/2014 15:30, N. W. wrote:
> Hello,
>
>> saeed98 at gmx.com wrote
>>
>> * It seems that color themes are not supported on Windows,
>> because the Windows port does not allow a change in the GTK
>> themes. I found an old post with a request for enabling
>> them, but I could not find any practical follow-up to that.
>> Is there a way to change color themes on Windows? Even if it
>> is just a hack, it would be welcome.
>
> well, before I used Claws Mail, I was using Sylpheed. Claws Mail is a
> fork of Sylpheed.
>
> And I basically asked the same for Sylpheed what you are asking for
> Claws Mail now (How to use GTK+ 2 themes on Win32?).
>
> You can read about it in the Sylpheed Redmine over there:
>
> http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/redmine/issues/186
>
> It basically will tell you how to do it.
>
> When the Sylpheed Win32 version was updated to use GTK+ 2.24.23 in
> Sylpheed 3.5.0beta1, using GTK+ 2 themes in Sylpheed Win32 suddenly
> seemed to work, even though not perfect, but at least it had an effect
> on how Sylpheed looked like.
>
> Before that, Sylpheed Win32 was using an older GTK+ 2 version and using
> GTK+ 2 themes did not have an effect at all.
>
> The sad thing is:
>
> Claws Mail Win32 also is using an old GTK+ 2 version and using themes
> also does not seem to have an effect.
>
> I already asked the Claws Mail developers to update the GTK+ 2 version
> to the latest version, see:
>
> http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3175
>
> Unfortunately though, the Claws Mail developers do not really seem to
> care about that, as you can read over there (including the following
> posts):
>
> http://lists.claws-mail.org/pipermail/users/2014-June/009843.html
>
> ;)
>
> Anyway, I just tried to use a GTK+ 2 theme in Claws Mail 3.10.1 Win32
> using the steps described over there:
>
> http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/redmine/issues/186
>
> but it doesn't work.
>
> Maybe Colin Leroy (a Claws Mail developer maintaining the Win32
> version) can help us?
>
> Regards
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On 28/06/2014 15:30, N. W. wrote:> Hello,
 >
 >> saeed98 at gmx.com wrote
 >>
 >> * It seems that color themes are not supported on Windows,
 >> because the Windows port does not allow a change in the GTK
 >> themes. I found an old post with a request for enabling
 >> them, but I could not find any practical follow-up to that.
 >> Is there a way to change color themes on Windows? Even if it
 >> is just a hack, it would be welcome.
 >
 > well, before I used Claws Mail, I was using Sylpheed. Claws Mail is a
 > fork of Sylpheed.
 >
 > And I basically asked the same for Sylpheed what you are asking for
 > Claws Mail now (How to use GTK+ 2 themes on Win32?).
 >
 > You can read about it in the Sylpheed Redmine over there:
 >
 > http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/redmine/issues/186
 >
 > It basically will tell you how to do it.
 >
 > When the Sylpheed Win32 version was updated to use GTK+ 2.24.23 in
 > Sylpheed 3.5.0beta1, using GTK+ 2 themes in Sylpheed Win32 suddenly
 > seemed to work, even though not perfect, but at least it had an effect
 > on how Sylpheed looked like.
 >
 > Before that, Sylpheed Win32 was using an older GTK+ 2 version and using
 > GTK+ 2 themes did not have an effect at all.
 >
 > The sad thing is:
 >
 > Claws Mail Win32 also is using an old GTK+ 2 version and using themes
 > also does not seem to have an effect.
 >
 > I already asked the Claws Mail developers to update the GTK+ 2 version
 > to the latest version, see:
 >
 > http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3175
 >
 > Unfortunately though, the Claws Mail developers do not really seem to
 > care about that, as you can read over there (including the following
 > posts):
 >
 > http://lists.claws-mail.org/pipermail/users/2014-June/009843.html
 >
 > ;)
 >
 > Anyway, I just tried to use a GTK+ 2 theme in Claws Mail 3.10.1 Win32
 > using the steps described over there:
 >
 > http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/redmine/issues/186
 >
 > but it doesn't work.
 >
 > Maybe Colin Leroy (a Claws Mail developer maintaining the Win32
 > version) can help us?
 >
 > Regards
 > _______________________________________________


Thanks for your detailed reply, N.W.

One thing is for sure, though: before going through all those links and 
trying to tinker with the system myself, I will wait for the outcome of 
this thread. In fact, most probably I will not even try at all to solve 
the problem, if I have to do it on my own. This issue is really for the 
developers to tackle. As for me, I really don't have the technical 
skills or the patience to attempt daredevil solutions, especially 
considering that the email client is something too important to risk 
compromising its functionality for the sake of changing color themes. 
Any tinkering may lead to serious problems.

Could some of the developers please look into this matter and find a 
safe solution for changing the GTK color theme on Win32?
I am surprised that this issue, which was reported long ago, has not 
been solved yet.

Thanks to all.