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[Jaap Karssenberg <jaap.karssenberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hmm, may need to dive into the initialization of the environment to
straighten it out. Will take some time though for me to get back to that.

-- Jaap

On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 11:56 AM Jesse Sloane <sloanej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Many thanks for the suggestion!
> But due to my ignorance I haven't been able to get the theme applied.
> I created the text file settings.ini which contains only the line gtk-theme-name
> = Solarized-BLACK-Blue
> Then I created two directories to be safe and put the same settings.ini
> file into both: %APPDATA%\Roaming\zim\config\zim\gtk-3.0 and
> %APPDATA%\Roaming\zim\config\gtk-3.0.
> C:\Program Files\Zim Desktop Wiki\share\themes\ contains a directory
> called Solarized-BLACK-Blue with a subdirectory for gtk-3.0.
> But Zim still starts up with the default theme. What am I missing?
>
>
> Jaap Karssenberg 於 2020/8/11 15:50 寫道:
>
> The Gtk manual gives the following information:
>
> There is a setting called gtk-theme-name that is read from the
> "settings.ini" file
>
> On settings file:
>
> In the absence of an Xsettings manager, GTK+ reads default values for
> settings from settings.ini files in /etc/gtk-3.0, $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/gtk-3.0
>  and $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gtk-3.0. These files must be valid key files (see
> GKeyFile), and have a section called Settings. Themes can also provide
> default values for settings by installing a settings.ini file next to
> their gtk.css file.
>
> On theme lookup:
>
> First, the file $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gtk-3.0/gtk.css is loaded if it exists.
> Then, GTK+ loads the first existing file among
> XDG_DATA_HOME/themes/THEME/gtk-VERSION/gtk.css,
> $HOME/.themes/THEME/gtk-VERSION/gtk.css,
> $XDG_DATA_DIRS/themes/THEME/gtk-VERSION/gtk.css and
> DATADIR/share/themes/THEME/gtk-VERSION/gtk.css, where THEME is the name
> of the current theme (see the “gtk-theme-name”
> <https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkSettings.html#GtkSettings--gtk-theme-name>
>  setting), DATADIR is the prefix configured when GTK+ was compiled
> (unless overridden by the GTK_DATA_PREFIX environment variable), and
> VERSION is the GTK+ version number. If no file is found for the current
> version, GTK+ tries older versions all the way back to 3.0.
>
>
> For the zim on windows, XDG_CONFIG_HOME is set to %APPDATA% /zim/config
>
> So my best guess without testing is that if you create
> "%APPDATA%/zim/config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini" and set the theme name, it
> should be used by Gtk. To find %APPDATA% just type "%APPDATA%" in the
> navigation bar of windows file explorer.
>
>
> Let me know whether this works. I'll put the information in the manual and
> maybe just make a preference setting for this.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jaap
>
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 8, 2020 at 3:49 AM Jesse Sloane <sloanej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm using the Windows install of 0.73.2, and would be gratefun for
>> guidance on changing the color theme. At the minimum it would be great
>> to have a dark background for regular text. For the old Windows versions
>> done by Brendan Kidwell I could figure out from the documentation what
>> directory to put a GTK theme into and then what config file to modify to
>> specify which theme to use.
>>
>> For these new Windows installations, I think I've found the directory to
>> add themes into (on my machine, 'C:\Program Files\Zim Desktop
>> Wiki\share\themes\') but can't figure out what file will make Zim apply
>> a different theme (I've been looking in
>> 'C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\zim\config\zim\' and the various
>> subdirectories of 'C:\Program Files\Zim Desktop Wiki\share\'). I even
>> tried replacing the files in ('C:\Program Files\Zim Desktop
>> Wiki\share\themes\Default\gtk-3.0\') with files of the same name from
>> another GTK theme, but the colors in Zim didn't change.
>>
>> What should I be doing? I noticed that there was some discussion on
>> Reddit about how to get a dark theme in the newer Windows installations
>> of Zim but no one found an answer.
>>
>> As you can can tell I'm not a software developer and don't have any deep
>> knowledge of how these applications are set up. I've just used Zim to
>> organize for my own work over many years and find it an amazing tool.
>>
>> Thanks for any help!
>>
>> Jesse
>>
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