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

[Carlos Alberto Cortez]

Ah! I missed that info.

Buho: would you mind supplying the dark theme you are using? I already tried
several dark themes from art.gnome.org and the only control having issues
was ToolStrip.

Carlos.

2010/1/7 Stifu <stifu at free.fr>

>
> Mauricio: you could just add a runtime condition.
> Like: if (Type.GetType("System.MonoType", false) != null) { Form1.ForeColor
> = Color.Black; }
>
> Carlos: not just the ToolStrip, from what he says, but all controls.
>
>
> Carlos Alberto wrote:
> >
> > 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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