How to make Raw Therapee look non-crappy

[AlexG]

Raw Therapee is a nice RAW converter. It's absolutely free and
destroys Bibble & co. in terms of output quality and usability.

As for the interface it's butt-fugly. Some kind of off-white creamy color. Bleh.

There is a file in the installed folder caled GTKRC, with no
extension. This is a text file that stores the interface settings.
Basically it defiles the colors that are applied to predefined
interface elements.

I adapted a Linux theme called Marble-Look for RT. Here is the final result:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/207/515582267_c2667f81f8_o.jpg

Here is the text, you can just delete the contents of the GTKRC file
and paste this in instead. Save, close, done:

#****************START
gtk-font-name = "sans 8"

style "clearlooks-default"
{
  GtkButton      ::default_border    = { 0, 0, 0, 0 }
  GtkRange       ::trough_border     = 0
  GtkPaned       ::handle_size       = 6
  GtkRange       ::slider_width      = 12
  GtkRange       ::stepper_size      = 12
  GtkScrollbar   ::min_slider_length = 30
  GtkCheckButton ::indicator_size    = 12
  GtkMenuBar     ::internal-padding  = 0
  GtkTreeView    ::expander_size     = 11
  GtkExpander    ::expander_size     = 11

  xthickness = 1
  ythickness = 1


fg[NORMAL]        = "#CACAC6"
    fg[ACTIVE]        = "#CACAC6"
    fg[INSENSITIVE]   = "#000000"
    fg[PRELIGHT]      = "#E2E2E2"
    fg[SELECTED]      = "#E2E2E2"

    bg[ACTIVE]        = "#484949"
    bg[NORMAL]        = "#5A5C5F"
    bg[INSENSITIVE]   = "#505050"
    bg[PRELIGHT]      = "#6A6C6F"
    bg[SELECTED]      = "#424446"

    base[NORMAL]      = "#919499"
    base[ACTIVE]      = "#5A5C5F"
    base[INSENSITIVE] = "#5A5C5F"
    base[PRELIGHT]    = "#646668"
    base[SELECTED]    = "#5A5C5F"

    text[NORMAL]      = "#000000"
    text[ACTIVE]      = "#000000"
    text[PRELIGHT]    = "#000000"
    text[SELECTED]    = "#E0D6AD"
    text[INSENSITIVE] = "#777777"






  engine "clearlooks"  {
    contrast = 1.0
    sunkenmenubar     = 1       # 0 = disable, 1 = enable
    menuitemstyle     = 0       # 0 = flat, 1 = 3d-ish (button)
    listviewitemstyle = 0       # 0 = flat, 1 = 3d-ish (gradient)
    progressbarstyle  = 0       # 0 = candy bar, 1 = flat
  }
}

style "clearlooks-wide" = "clearlooks-default"
{
  xthickness = 1
  ythickness = 1
}

style "clearlooks-notebook" = "clearlooks-wide"
{
  bg[NORMAL] = "#5a5c5f"
}

style "clearlooks-tasklist" = "clearlooks-default"
{
  xthickness = 5
  ythickness = 3
}

style "clearlooks-menu" = "clearlooks-default"
{
  xthickness = 2
  ythickness = 1
  bg[NORMAL] = "#efefef"
}

style "clearlooks-menu-item" = "clearlooks-default"
{
  xthickness = 1
  ythickness = 1
  fg[PRELIGHT] = "#ffffff"
  text[PRELIGHT] = "#ffffff"
}

style "clearlooks-menu-itembar" = "clearlooks-default"
{
  xthickness = 1
  ythickness = 1
}

style "clearlooks-tree" = "clearlooks-default"
{
  xthickness = 1
  ythickness = 1
}

style "clearlooks-frame-title" = "clearlooks-default"
{
  fg[NORMAL] = "#404040"
}

style "clearlooks-panel" = "clearlooks-default"
{
  xthickness = 3
  ythickness = 3
}

style "clearlooks-tooltips" = "clearlooks-default"
{
  xthickness = 4
  ythickness = 4
  bg[NORMAL] = { 1.0,1.0,0.75 }
}

style "clearlooks-progressbar" = "clearlooks-default"
{
  xthickness = 1
  ythickness = 0

  fg[PRELIGHT]  = "#ffffff"
}

style "clearlooks-combo" = "clearlooks-default"
{
  xthickness = 1
  ythickness = 1
}

class "GtkWidget" style "clearlooks-default"
class "GtkButton" style "clearlooks-wide"
class "GtkRange" style "clearlooks-wide"
class "GtkFrame" style "clearlooks-wide"
class "GtkStatusbar" style "clearlooks-wide"
class "GtkMenu" style "clearlooks-menu"
class "GtkMenuItem" style "clearlooks-menu-item"
widget_class "*MenuItem.*" style "clearlooks-menu-item"
class "GtkEntry" style "clearlooks-wide"
widget_class "*.tooltips.*.GtkToggleButton" style "clearlooks-tasklist"
widget_class "*.GtkTreeView.GtkButton" style "clearlooks-tree"
widget_class "*.GtkCTree.GtkButton" style "clearlooks-tree"
widget_class "*.GtkList.GtkButton" style "clearlooks-tree"
widget_class "*.GtkCList.GtkButton" style "clearlooks-tree"
widget_class "*.GtkFrame.GtkLabel" style "clearlooks-frame-title"
widget_class "BasePWidget.GtkEventBox.GtkTable.GtkFrame" style
"clearlooks-panel"
widget "gtk-tooltips" style "clearlooks-tooltips"
class "GtkNotebook" style "clearlooks-notebook"
class "GtkProgressBar" style "clearlooks-progressbar"
widget_class "*.GtkComboBox.GtkButton" style "clearlooks-combo"
widget_class "*.GtkCombo.GtkButton" style "clearlooks-combo"
#****************END



Enjoy!

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