[Lazarus] Forms Color on Linux

[Lee Jenkins]

Mattias Gärtner wrote:
> Zitat von Lee Jenkins <lee at datatrakpos.com>:
> 
>> Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
>>> Lee Jenkins wrote:
>>>> 1. Is is a known limitation of gtk1 that you cannot change the form's
>> color?
>>>> I've tried to do this, but this (at design time) has no effect.
>>> One of many reasons why I started fpGUI. When we still used LCL & GTK1
>>> (1.5-2 years ago), I was told it is not native behaviour and will not be
>>> fixed. Don't ask me what Linux native behaviour is, because every second
>>> Linux app behaves differently. :) A work around was to create some
>>> custom theme file, but that was not a solution for us.
>>>
>>> I have no idea what's the state of LCL & GTK1 at the moment, regarding
>>> this issue. But from your comment, it seems nothing has changed.
>>>
>>>> 2. With gkt2, the form's color does change with what it was set to at
>> design
>>> I can't comment on GTK2. 1.5 years ago, GTK2 was totally unusable.
>>>
>> Hmmm.  That's a bit unfortunate.
> 
> Nowadays I prefer gtk2 above gtk1. gtk2 is slower, but there are more things
> that work better under gtk2 than the other way.

I think gtk2 looks much better as well.

> 
>> I get the idea of theming and centralizing the
>> user feel, etc but that doesn't take into account task based applications.
> 
> What theming? Theming by the programmer, or theming by the user/target platform?
> 

I assumed that the initial flicker that I see is caused by the forms default 
color being painted before the LCL gets a chance to paint over it again.  I 
assumed the default color is based on whatever theme is in effect for the 
current user.

> 
>> I've noticed also that other things like MouseDown and MouseUp seem to act
>> differently (kind of sluggish) in GTK1/2 or maybe its Gnome in general.
>> That's a show stopper for me.
> 
> Please create a bug report.
> 

I will, but I am thinking its something in gtk because even other none lazarus 
apps seem sluggish, just that lazarus gtk2 apps seem to add some sluggishness 
over top of that.

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Lee

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