[Mono-winforms-list] gnome white font color and mono WinForm issue..

[Carlos Alberto Cortez]

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 buhochilenoi at gmail.com <buhochileno at gmail.com>

>  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 buhochilenoi at gmail.com <buhochileno at gmail.com>
>
>> 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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