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[Jaap Karssenberg <jaap.karssenberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

I had success with switching zim to dark theme by creating
"etc/gtk-3.0/settings.ini" in the installation folder and put

[Settings]
gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme=1

 in that file. No custom theme at hand to test, but there you can set the
theme name. That reduces the problem to putting the theme in hte right
folder :)

-- Jaap

On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 2:09 PM Jesse Sloane <sloanej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thank you! No worries, whenever you get around to it.
>
>
> Jaap Karssenberg 於 2020/8/12 19:46 寫道:
>
> 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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