[Pidgin] #1138: gtkrc plugin improvements

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#1138: gtkrc plugin improvements
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  Reporter:  hobbified     |       Owner:  deryni
      Type:  enhancement   |      Status:  new   
  Priority:  minor         |   Milestone:        
 Component:  pidgin (gtk)  |     Version:  2.0   
Resolution:                |    Keywords:        
   Pending:  0             |  
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Comment (by deryni):

 gaim never had stuff to work around any 'uncoolness' in GTK+ we had a
 preference that worked at a much less useful level of configuration and
 limited (arbitrarily) the available options and broke horribly for many
 people. If you want better GTK+ documentation file a bug with them or
 better yet start working on gtkrc file examples and documentation. I'm
 sure they would accept the help. The syntax of the gtkrc files is fine as
 far as config file syntax goes, the available values just aren't at all
 easily discoverable. What would be absolutely ideal would be a runtime gtk
 resource editor, that let you make theme changes on-the-fly and watch
 things change (which is sort of what the plugin in question tried to do
 but for a very limited set of values) and even more optimistically there
 would be a way to poke at an existing GTK+ application/window to find any
 named widgets and/or any properties/settings of the widgets in the window.
 Neither of those is easy to do or likely to come quickly though.

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