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Mimick native Windows UI

Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2015 11:52 pm
by op1970
Would it be possible to mimick the native Windows UI?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/189 ... ts-qt-fltk

Thanks!

Re: Mimick native Windows UI

Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2015 4:30 pm
by Cas
You can change the theme yourself I think there was a topic where I explain what is required.

Re: Mimick native Windows UI

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2015 9:30 am
by op1970
Should it have to be something that the user has to dig through ancient forum posts to find out about? Can't it just work by default?

Re: Mimick native Windows UI

Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2015 6:12 pm
by op1970
Cas wrote:You can change the theme yourself I think there was a topic where I explain what is required.
Sorry, which topic?

Thank you!

Re: Mimick native Windows UI

Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2015 5:28 pm
by op1970
Bump

Re: Mimick native Windows UI

Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2015 6:05 pm
by Cas
it would have been infinitely faster for you to search: http://forum.deluge-torrent.org/search. ... dows+theme

Re: Mimick native Windows UI

Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2015 10:11 am
by op1970
Hello Cas! Pardon me but I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to look for? Mimicking the native Windows UI involves - as you stated in http://forum.deluge-torrent.org/viewtop ... =8&t=52079 - a lot more than simple theming (ie. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/189 ... ts-qt-fltk).

Re: Mimick native Windows UI

Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2015 11:10 am
by Cas
op1970 wrote:as you stated in http://forum.deluge-torrent.org/viewtop ... =8&t=52079 - a lot more than simple theming
That topic as far as I am aware is referring to changing the layout of Deluge, not simply the theme.

That stackoverflow answer has already told you that theming is the answer. In my post here: http://forum.deluge-torrent.org/viewtop ... me#p184823 I explain the details of Deluge changes to the GTK theme and then link to another thread with more information http://forum.deluge-torrent.org/viewtop ... =8&t=43637 which refers to https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Using% ... _gtk_theme.

With all that information the result is this quote from the Pidgin page modified for Deluge:
Download the ​GTK+ Themesand ​GTK+ Theme Switcher zip files and extract them to a temporary directory.

Copy the lib and share directories from the GTK+ Themes zip file into your <Deluge Installation Directory> (you want to merge those with the existing lib and share directories). Copy the gtk2_prefs.exe from the GTK Theme Switcher zip file into your <Deluge Installation Directory>.

You can now run the gtk2_prefs.exe applications to choose a theme. You probably will want to use the "Apply for all users" checkbox so that the changes are made to Deluge's private GTK+ runtime.

Note: If you had previously set up a user-specific GTK+ theme with the global GTK+ Runtime, you will need to delete or rename the %USERPROFILE%/.gtkrc-2.0 file in order to have your changes take effect.

Re: Mimick native Windows UI

Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2015 12:37 pm
by op1970
Great stuff Cas! Thank you!

Re: Mimick native Windows UI

Posted: Tue May 09, 2017 6:02 pm
by mfletcher
This seems like a lot of hassle for someone who just wants Deluge to look decent on Windows.

Is there any way the Windows installation itself could take care of all this? I would gladly donate via Patreon or bitcoins to make it happen.

Thanks!