Actually, no. I had set my theme to dark with contrast. It was at default prior to me making those changes. I was expecting my GIMP title bar to be black like the rest of the windows, but as the image shows, its white.

In any case, I'm happy with the changes as it now matches my personal GIMP theme.

Definitely dig the green. I really need to figure theming out.

Anyone know how to get the new opened image format in 2.8.18 to show the x as white instead of black?

It's certainly possible by creating an appropriate image and making sure the theme uses the new image:

Which theme are you using?

Kevin

That's part of the problem. I am using an older theme before 2.8.18 (Rod's blue theme), and the latest release of GIMP has the "opened" images that float at the top left of the window. I don't see anywhere on the gtkrc file to fix this. I opened the small theme with GIMP to see what was new, and couldn't get much out of that. I just want the x to be white, not be an image.

This is going to be fun without seeing your theme directory...

That icon is controlled by a stock-id gimp-close:

I have it in a sub-directory called "12" (because all the icons in it are 12x12 pixels)

If you already have an assignment for gimp-close in the gtkrc, then find the image file it's pointing to and change it from black to whatever you want.

If you don't have an assignment already, then find some other "stock[" assignment, and add a section for the gimp-close id, pointing to your new close icon.

Kevin

With your avatar as the close icon:

Kevin,

Many thanks! That did the trick. I simply added your code to the gtkrc and created the new stock image.

Looks like you could do with a gimp-menu-right as well:

Kevin,

I had to remove the gtk-menu in order for mine to work, however, what about the other arrows like this one, that opens and detaches dockable windows? To the right of Tool Options.

The last several posts here have really answered some questions for me. Thanks, guys.

I've run the gauntlet of what that little arrow could possibly be called so, until someone on the off chance knows what it's named in the gtkrc, I'l have to live with it being black.

Well, on a WILD hunch, I tried cheating, and it worked.

Seeing as Kevin brought up the previous stock code, I simply made a second one and named it as such:

stock["gimp-menu-left"] =
{
{ "gimp-menu-left.png", *, *, * }

Saved the file, created a white left arrow image and presto, it's good to go.

I've learned a few new things in this thread myself. For 1 i need to take a peek at the newer gtkrc files. Thanks guys!

Just found a boatload of information under
that is well above my head. But it looks like it might be useful to some of you if you haven't already seen these files. All sorts of html files explaining the object hierarchies, deprecated code, and other stuff that made my eyes glaze over. Obviously the location on my Linux box won't be the same as a Windows box. But I doubt the subdirectories will be named much differently. Just thought I'd pass it along in case this isn't already common knowledge. If it is already common knowledge, my apologies for wasting your time.

Kevin,

I noticed that I missed an arrow (The multi-directional arrow). Is there a specific code parameter for that arrow as well. I searched high and low trying to find it. I just think I am not identifying it correctly. [Edit: thought I found it on Github under pan, but that was not it, either.]

Hi Mahvin

That is the stock-id gimp-navigation:


The way I went about finding that, is to look through the set of image files for the matching icon, then look through the corresponding gtkrc file.

However, to get to that point I've been rummaging through the source code, trying to match the IDs used in source, with the corresponding usage in the user-interface.

For example, I can see that the tool-tip for the menu item Window>>Dockable Dialogs>>Navigation is "Open the display navigation dialog", so I'd search through the source code files (*.c) for that string:


Then looking at the file app\actions\dialogs-actions.c:


So then I search for gimp-navigation-view, which leads to:


And in app\dialogs\dialogs.c


And it's the GIMP_STOCK_NAVIGATION that's of interest (GIMP_STOCK_ are the icons)
So searching again, this time in the C header files (*.h)


So it's showing that the gtkrc stock id is "gimp-navigation"

Kevin