Maurice posted on Sat, 29 Jul 2017 12:00:45 +0000 as excerpted: > Now using PAN 0.140, I cannot find a way of making the toolbar icons > bigger, or making the 'tooltip' text readable (seems to be pale yellow > on a grey background)! > > Where have I omitted to look, please?
There's a number of variables to consider here. First, is your pan a gtk2 or gtk3 based build? (Check package dependencies or run ldd /path/to/pan and see.) For years gtk2 has been recommended as there /used/ to be mysterious issues with a gtk3 build that "magically" disappeared with a build against gtk2, but there has been some discussion of a renewed push to test and fix any remaining gtk3- based issues, recently. But I'm still running a gtk2-based build here. Second, what desktop environment? If it's a gtk-based DE, there's a fair chance that the generic DE configuration will affect both icon size and tooltip colors, particularly if your DE's gtk-base matches that of pan. If you're running a non-gtk-based DE, however, and haven't separately installed the appropriate gtk-config tools, you'll have to configure things manually. I'm a long-time kde, now (kde-)plasma, user, and that's qt-based, so I've had similar issues and had to do a semi-manual config. Unfortunately it has been long ago enough now that I don't remember the details, but I'll see what I can find probing my own config... FWIW, I didn't worry too much about gtk2 (and thus pan) icon size here. These days I run big-screen TVs as monitors so size isn't the issue it might have been before, but the size was always big enough to hit, and as long as the tooltips were readable, I was fine, so tooltip readability was what I focused on and ultimately fixed. FWIW(2), kde/plasma has long had in its color settings config a checkbox to apply colors to non-qt-based apps as well. From what I've seen that means at least gtk-based; I'm honestly not sure what beyond that it applies to, but most of my non-qt/kde apps are gtk anyway, and it applies to them, tho it does /not/ seem to apply to the xorg/motif based tools, etc. But I too had the unreadable tooltips issue, as I said, many years ago (kde3 era, so VERY long ago in kde terms!). I suspect it was at the time due to the fact that I prefer a "reverse" color-scheme, light text on a dark background, and while kde was applying my kde color scheme to most gtk elements, including either the foreground or background of the tooltip (IDR which) , it wasn't applying it to the other one, so I ended up with either light on light or dark on dark tooltips. Either way, it was unreadable and needed fixed. I've not had the problem since, but I'm honestly not sure whether it's because kde/plasma fixed that problem and applies its colors to both foreground and background of the tooltip, or if my fixes from years ago continue to stick, all these years later. For all I know kde/plasma fixed the problem, but my fix is still applying as well, overriding the kde/plasma fix. So now to rummaging around in my config, trying to see what controls the gtk2 tooltip colors... <oops> It just started raining outside, and I remember a big storm was forcast for this evening... and last time a big storm came thru the lights blinked and the computer rebooted... more than once until I just shut it off for a few hours... so I'm going to send this now and finish later... -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
