Standalones and Linux

[Andrew Kluthe]

On the system with a fresh 12.04 lts installation the fonts are huge and
the colors are very offputting.

On linux mint running cinnamon, things seem to be running nicely, but with
stock ubuntu 12.04 lts the colors are awful. On windows I recall there is a
way to set the style of the theming to something very basic and not use the
new windows 7 or eight themes. Is there not something similar on linux that
will let me just turn the themeing off without having to in and change so
much of my program.

Link to a Screenshot is below.

http://oi44.tinypic.com/2wq9349.jpg  -- Ubuntu 12.04


On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Richard Gaskin
<ambassador at fourthworld.com>wrote:

> Andrew Kluthe wrote:
>
>  Is there anyway I can remove the theming that livecode applications
>> inherit
>> from the system on linux?
>>
>> We have a stand alone that was designed for windows and when I stick that
>> on a fresh-out-the-can ubuntu 12.04 the fonts, buttons etc are incredibly
>> ugly. All of my buttons turn orange and the fonts as a whole get very
>> large. Some of these things like the fonts I know will have to be reworked
>> for the linux verson but I can hardly stand all of my buttons being orange
>> by default.
>>
>> Is there a way to turn off livecode doing this kind of theming of my apps?
>>
>
> By default, LiveCode does a pretty good job of adopting the themes on
> whatever OS it's running on:  Windows looks like Windows, Mac looks like
> Mac, and Ubuntu looks like Ubuntu.
>
> If you want to make a Mac app look like Ubuntu, or an Ubuntu app look like
> Windows, you can explicitly set the properties you want to change.
>
> For example, Ubuntu users are accustomed to seeing the OS theme color
> orange for highlights, but you can set the hiliteColor of controls to
> something else if you want.
>
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-- 
Regards,

Andrew Kluthe
andrew at ctech.me