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Re: [platform-swt-dev] Coloring widgets on Qt
Since you don't know what eSWT is, I assume you are just using normal SWT on your Ubuntu machine. Basically, SWT doesn't actually use QT it uses GTK. But just as you can run the Gimp on KDE you can also run Eclipse (it uses your current gnome theme). I just did some tests and it seems that some GTK themes cannot be coloured (as Stef pointed out) AluminumAlloy-Smog is one example. Try running gnome-theme-manager and changing your gnome theme (Simple theme seems to allow button colour customization). 
Cheers,
Ian

Otto wrote:

I'm a bit lost with those eSWT, Qt/E, QVFB, etc (no idea what they mean).
Is that a problem of SWT itself or with my environment?

I have tested several widget styles (motif, etc) but got the same result.
2007/1/2, David Whiteman < dlwhiteman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:dlwhiteman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>: 

    Tuesday, January 2, 2007, 5:05:13 PM, Stef van Dijk wrote:

    > Yeah, I'm afraid I don't know about that environment. When I
    worked on
    > this a few years ago, we were building on top of Qt/E and Qtopia
    (I assume
    > the eSWT at eclipse.org <http://eclipse.org> still does) and
    running either on a device (ie,
    > Sharp Zaurus or the Mainstone) or within QVFB. What we observed
    was that
    > certain themes would not "support" changing the color of widgets
    such as
    > buttons whereas some themes would. Presumably the theme was
    superceding
    > any color settings the application tried to make.
    > Sorry, but that's about all I have to offer.

    >     Stef

    I can confirm this. For instance, some of the Qt widgets in
    the Windows style don't support changing the background
    color. So it would depend on what version of Qt you were
    using, and what style is being used for you within eSWT. I
    don't think eSWT is going to give you a way to pick a
    different style, but you could try hacking the eSWT code
    yourself to do so to see if that's the problem. I recall the
    Windows 95 style was a bit more forgiving than the XP one
    when it comes to covers.

    --
    Regards,
    David
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