HOWTO: Change colors of wine applications

[mdpalow]

do I copy this into a file and then run it? Can you pls explain this a little more detailed for the novice.

Thanks in advance...

[MemoryDump]

Originally Posted by KillerKiwi I've started this... it grabs the color scheme from GTK and produces a wine user.cfg at least it will #!/usr/bin/env python import pygtk pygtk.require("2.0") import gtk def format_color_string( Color ): return "%s %s %s" % (Color.red /256, Color.green/256, Color.blue/256) def format_color_key( key, Color): return "\"%s\"=\"%s\"\n" % (key, format_color_string( Color )) style = gtk.Style() user_reg = """WINE REGISTRY Version 2 ;; All keys relative to \\User\\S-1-5-4 [Control Panel\\\\Colors] """ # REF - http://www.moeraki.com/pygtkreference/pygtk2reference/class-gtkstyle.html user_reg += format_color_key('ButtonHilight', style.bg[gtk.STATE_ACTIVE] ) user_reg += format_color_key('ButtonLight', style.bg[gtk.STATE_NORMAL] ) user_reg += format_color_key('ButtonShadow', style.dark[gtk.STATE_NORMAL] ) user_reg += format_color_key('ButtonText', style.text[gtk.STATE_NORMAL] ) user_reg += format_color_key('ButtonFace', style.bg[gtk.STATE_PRELIGHT]) print user_reg It should just be a matter of finding the correct mappings from here.....

omg this worked like a charm!! thxs

Originally Posted by mdpalow do I copy this into a file and then run it? Can you pls explain this a little more detailed for the novice. Thanks in advance...

to answer mdpalow's question..
copy and paste the code provided in a new document.. like getcolors.py for example.
then in a shell simply type: python getcolors.py
it'll spit out the colors you can copy and paste in your user.reg file as described in the first post. Good luck!

[KillerKiwi]

A bit more tweaking.... the mappings still arnt correct but its closer

#!/usr/bin/env python
import pygtk
import gtk


def format_color_string( Color ):
	return "%s %s %s" % (Color.red /256, Color.green/256,  Color.blue/256)
	
def format_color_key( key, Color):
	return "\"%s\"=\"%s\"\n" % (key, format_color_string( Color ))
	

invisible1 = gtk.Invisible()
style1 = invisible1.style

button1 = gtk.Button()
buttonstyle = button1.style

scroll1 =  gtk.VScrollbar()
scrollbarstyle = scroll1.style

menu1 = gtk.Menu()
menuitem1 = gtk.MenuItem()
menu1.add(menuitem1)
menustyle = menuitem1.style

user_reg = """WINE REGISTRY Version 2
;; All keys relative to \\User\\S-1-5-4

[Control Panel\\\\Colors]
"""

# http://www.moeraki.com/pygtkreference/pygtk2reference/class-gtkstyle.html
# http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/mono-winforms-list/2003-August/000469.html

user_reg += format_color_key('Scrollbar', scrollbarstyle.bg[gtk.STATE_NORMAL])
user_reg += format_color_key('Background', style1.bg[gtk.STATE_NORMAL])
user_reg += format_color_key('ActiveTitle', menustyle.bg[gtk.STATE_PRELIGHT])
user_reg += format_color_key('InactiveTitle', menustyle.bg[gtk.STATE_PRELIGHT])
user_reg += format_color_key('Menu', menustyle.bg[gtk.STATE_NORMAL])
user_reg += format_color_key('Window', style1.bg[gtk.STATE_NORMAL])
user_reg += format_color_key('WindowFrame', style1.fg[gtk.STATE_INSENSITIVE])
user_reg += format_color_key('MenuText', style1.fg[gtk.STATE_NORMAL])
user_reg += format_color_key('WindowText', style1.fg[gtk.STATE_NORMAL])
user_reg += format_color_key('TitleText', style1.fg[gtk.STATE_NORMAL])
user_reg += format_color_key('ActiveBorder', menustyle.bg[gtk.STATE_PRELIGHT])
user_reg += format_color_key('InactiveBorder', menustyle.bg[gtk.STATE_NORMAL])
user_reg += format_color_key('AppWorkSpace', style1.bg[gtk.STATE_NORMAL])
user_reg += format_color_key('Hilight', menustyle.bg[gtk.STATE_PRELIGHT])
user_reg += format_color_key('HilightText', style1.bg[gtk.STATE_PRELIGHT])
user_reg += format_color_key('ButtonFace', style1.bg[gtk.STATE_NORMAL])
user_reg += format_color_key('ButtonShadow', style1.bg[gtk.STATE_INSENSITIVE])
user_reg += format_color_key('GrayText', style1.fg[gtk.STATE_INSENSITIVE])
user_reg += format_color_key('ButtonText', style1.fg[gtk.STATE_NORMAL])
user_reg += format_color_key('InactiveTitleText', style1.fg[gtk.STATE_INSENSITIVE])
user_reg += format_color_key('ButtonHilight', style1.bg[gtk.STATE_NORMAL])
user_reg += format_color_key('ButtonShadow', style1.fg[gtk.STATE_NORMAL])
user_reg += format_color_key('ButtonLight', style1.fg[gtk.STATE_NORMAL])
user_reg += format_color_key('InfoText', style1.fg[gtk.STATE_NORMAL])
user_reg += format_color_key('InfoWindow', style1.fg[gtk.STATE_NORMAL])
user_reg += format_color_key('ButtonAlternateFace', style1.bg[gtk.STATE_NORMAL])
user_reg += format_color_key('ButtonHilight', style1.bg[gtk.STATE_NORMAL])
user_reg += format_color_key('GradientActiveTitle', style1.bg[gtk.STATE_NORMAL])
user_reg += format_color_key('GradientInactiveTitle', style1.bg[gtk.STATE_NORMAL])
user_reg += format_color_key('MenuHilight', menustyle.bg[gtk.STATE_NORMAL])

print user_reg

[dnns123]

Thanks! But I think its too bright

[mscir]

Thanks, that looks a lot better.

My menu text (Ubuntu 7.10) is still grey instead of black, is there any way to fix that?

[bg1256]

http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/0...he-ugly-stick/

[LeeU]

Originally Posted by Super Jamie many months too late, but this page has good google rating here are wine xp settings, which i lifted from http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine...st/010161.html

Sweet! Thanks!

[WillemToerien]

Originally Posted by ice60 here's the ubuntu theme http://fioressj.deviantart.com/art/H...ndows-37743373

I've installed the theme in wine, and it looks great.

...however... its way slower and eats a ton of your cpu usuage just by for example selecting another tab.

[Endolith]

Originally Posted by KillerKiwi A bit more tweaking.... the mappings still arnt correct but its closer

I decided to take a stab at fulfilling my own request in Bug 111061. While researching, I found that you had already done much of the work for me.

I fixed some mappings and got it working so that it does everything automatically now; reads the color codes from various places, creates a .reg file, and then imports that into the Wine registry. So you just run the script once after changing themes and it updates. Although some of your choices looked better than nothing, and work pretty well on some themes, they don't work on all, so I've disabled them for now so we can find the real settings. It's a lot harder than I expected to get the correct colors that the system is currently using:

• 'ActiveBorder' = Active window border
• 'ActiveTitle' = Left end of active title bar
• 'GradientActiveTitle' = Right end of active title bar
• 'GradientInactiveTitle' = Right end of inactive title bar
• 'InactiveBorder' = Inactive window border
• 'InactiveTitle' = Left end of inactive title bar
• 'InactiveTitleText' = Inactive title bar text
• 'TitleText' = Active title bar text

Aren't all of these defined by the window manager; not GTK? How do we access those settings? There's a metacity module for python, but I can't find any documentation.

• 'AppWorkSpace' = Background color of multiple-document interface

Seems like Gnome has pretty much abandoned MDIs, and I don't know where to read this color from. Seems like a GTK setting, though.

• 'Background' = Gnome desktop color

I scraped this from gconf, but there might be a better way.

• 'HotTrackingColor' = Single-click navigation hover color

Is there an equivalent of this in Gnome? It's used in Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer as the hover color for single-click navigation.

• 'InfoText' = ToolTip text
• 'InfoWindow' = ToolTip background

I think this is in GTK, but I don't know where to look.

tooltips1 = gtk.Tooltips() ?

'gtk.Tooltips' object has no attribute 'style'

• 'Menu' = Background for menus, also background for menu bars in 3D mode
• 'MenuBar' = Background for menu bars - rarely seen with 3D menus
• 'MenuHilight' = Highlight for flat menus - in 3D mode, Hilight is used instead
• 'MenuText' = Menu text

The menustyle.bg thing returns values for these, but they don't usually match with the theme. For instance, menustyle.bg[gtk.STATE_SELECTED] gives me a blue in the Human theme, when the selected menu background is actually yellow. I don't get it. (Note that these really only work in Wine when you enable flat menus.)

• 'Scrollbar' = Background color of scrollbar, but only in some apps.

I don't think scrollbarstyle.bg[gtk.STATE_NORMAL] matches the real color, either.

If anyone can help with this, it would be very appreciated.

Also, it took me a while (and tweaking in actual Windows) to figure out what all the Wine registry values do. Some are obvious, but others are not. I still don't know what ButtonAlternateFace does. (As far as I can tell, "ButtonAlternativeFace" is just a typo of "ButtonAlternateFace".) I wish there were more documentation for this, but I'll post what I've found somewhere so that others don't have to reverse-engineer it again like I did.

I also want to look into importing font faces, sizes, and widget sizes as well. I'm sure some of these would be a further improvement, while others would just make Wine look stupid.

Attached is the script as well as a spreadsheet of all the registry values and the mappings I've found. This is my first Python script; be nice.

Edit: Latest version is on Launchpad: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~endolit...-scraper/files

[Endolith]

The spreadsheet of Wine color names is too big to upload here, but I created a page explaining them all anyway:

http://www.endolith.com/wordpress/20...3/wine-colors/