Trent Buck's Message from Wednesday 19 May 2004 16:09:
Quoth Mario Streiber on or about 2004-05-19:
I tried it. When selecting a larger font, it will display the current theme with this font, but after applying and exiting it has no effect on newly started gtk2 apps. It writes a file named ~/.gtkrc-2.0 with the following lines:
Unfortunately this file is not read when I start inkscape (or any other gtk2 app), as strace shows.
It sounds like KDE is messing about with how GTK2's behavior.
Since I don't run GNOME or KDE; the only Qt app I have is filelight, I can't help there. Sorry.
As I wrote further down the env variable GTK2_RC_FILES determines which config files to read. Meanwhile I found out that it is set in the kde startup script /opt/kde3/bin/startkde (at least on SuSE). I added $HOME/.gtkrc-2.0 there and it works now.
I also tried gtk-qt as Artemio suggested. But even with this theme engine I had to specify a certain font and size in the gtkrc file. And also, this is much slower on my not-so-fast system so I decided not to use it.
Thanks anyway Mario