Gnome to Wine color scraper

Readme.txt

This is a Python script to extract GNOME/GTK's color scheme and apply it to Wine, so that the themes (approximately) match.

Instructions:
1. Set your Gnome theme as you would like it
2. Run with a command like "python wine_colors_from_gtk.py"
3. Restart any apps running in Wine.  They should match the Gnome theme colors now.

Better description with screenshots here: http://www.endolith.com/wordpress/2008/08/03/wine-colors/

This is also stored on https://code.launchpad.net/~endolith/+junk/wine-color-scraper
Just trying out gist.github.com...


To do:

* Needs to separate out scrapers for each GTK engine where necessary.  (Can't an interface for this just be built into the engines instead?)
* Copy Gnome fonts as well as colors.  (Not sure where Wine stores these settings.)
* Something would need to call this script every time the Gnome theme is changed.

Everything else is working for me.

Other previous discussions:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=55286&page=3#29
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=878068
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg16400.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg12076.html
http://www.wine-doors.org/trac/ticket/411

wineconfig.py and winewrite.py scripts in Guidance package for KDE do the same things:

http://kde-guidance.sourcearchive.com/documentation/0.8.0-0ubuntu5/dir_b125788d4a71372d5142465501c18d05.html

Similar code is built into Mozilla:

http://www.google.com/codesearch/p?hl=en#e_ObwTAVPyo/widget/src/gtk2/nsLookAndFeel.cpp&q=nsLookAndFeel.cpp

Will be integrated into Wine Doors? http://www.wine-doors.org/trac/changeset/1536


All of Wine's 31 possible user.reg color values
Asterisk * next to comment if I've found a value that works for most themes
Question mark ? next to comment if not sure or can't find anywhere to scrape from

Some descriptions:
http://www.quimp.net/gamemaker/system-colors
http://www.endolith.com/wordpress/2008/08/03/wine-colors/
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/58336
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.drawing.systemcolors_properties(VS.80).aspx

TitleText             Active title bar text
ActiveTitle           Left end of active title bar
GradientActiveTitle   Right end of active title bar
ActiveBorder          Active window border
InactiveTitleText     Inactive title bar text
InactiveTitle         Left end of inactive title bar
GradientInactiveTitle Right end of inactive title bar
InactiveBorder        Inactive window border

AppWorkSpace          Background color of multiple-document interface
Background            Desktop solid color

ButtonText            Button/tab text and glyphs
ButtonHilight         Outermost button higlight / Grayed-out button text shadow
ButtonLight           Inner button highlight, usually same as ButtonFace
ButtonFace            Background for buttons and all 3D objects
ButtonAlternateFace   ???
ButtonShadow          Shadows of buttons / Grayed-out button text
ButtonDkShadow        Outermost shadow of buttons

GrayText              Grayed out text in windows, like labels for unavailable widgets
Hilight               Background of selected text
HilightText           Selected text
HotTrackingColor      Single-click navigation hover color

InfoText              ToolTip text
InfoWindow            ToolTip background

Menu                  Background for menus, also background for menu bars in 3D mode
MenuBar               Background for menu bars - rarely seen due to 3D menus
MenuHilight           Highlight for flat menus - in 3D mode, Hilight is used instead
MenuText              Menu text

Scrollbar             Background color of scrollbar, but only in some apps
Window                Background color of notepad, for instance
WindowFrame           Glow around focused widget
WindowText            Text in notepad, for instance


These were all found by trial and error.  Please point out any mistakes.







2011-04: I use Windows 7 as my main OS now, so I won't be making many updates to this script.  Fork it and improve it!





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wine_colors_from_gtk.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

# Scrape colors from GTK and import them into Wine through the registry
# 
# [email protected] 2009-02-06
# 
# Based on script by KillerKiwi [Ubuntu Forums] October 29th, 2007
# http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=55286&page=3#23
# 
# which is based on patch by Johannes Roith [Mono-winforms-list] Wed, 27 Aug 2003
# http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/mono-winforms-list/2003-August/000469.html


import pygtk
import gtk
import os
from tempfile import NamedTemporaryFile
from gconf import Client
import re


# TODO: command line switch
debug_mode = False

def format_color_string(Color):
    """ Convert 48-bit gdk.Color to 24-bit 'RRR GGG BBB' triple. """
    if type(Color) is gtk.gdk.Color:
        return '%s %s %s' % (Color.red/256, Color.green/256,  Color.blue/256)
    else:
        print('Not a GdkColor: ' + str(Color))
        return None

def format_hex_color(color):
    """ Convert from hex color string to decimal 'RRR GGG BBB' triple. """
    if re.match('^#[0-9a-fA-F]{12}$', color):
        r, g, b = color[1:3], color[5:7], color[9:11] #rrrrggggbbbb
    elif re.match('^#[0-9a-fA-F]{6}$', color):
        r, g, b = color[1:3], color[3:5], color[5:7]  #RRGGBB
    elif re.match('^#[0-9a-fA-F]{3}$', color):    
        r, g, b = color[1]*2, color[2]*2, color[3]*2  #09C becomes 0099CC.
    else:
        print('Cannot understand color string format: ' + str(color))
        return None
    return '%s %s %s' % (int(r,16), int(g,16), int(b,16))

# TODO: fonts

# Get some colors from GTK
# gtk.Style object:
# http://www.moeraki.com/pygtkreference/pygtk2reference/class-gtkstyle.html

# Create a window to scrape colors from
window = gtk.Window()

button = gtk.Button()
vbox = gtk.VBox()
vbox.add(button)

scrollbar =  gtk.VScrollbar()
vbox.add(scrollbar)

menubar = gtk.MenuBar()
menuitem = gtk.MenuItem()
menubar.add(menuitem)
vbox.add(menubar)

window.add(vbox)

# On show_all(), these are all converted from gtk.Style objects with wrong
# colors into __main__.EngineStyle objects with correct colors.
window.show_all()

# Tooltips
# http://www.daa.com.au/pipermail/pygtk/2005-November/011353.html
tooltip = gtk.Window()
tooltip.set_name('gtk-tooltips')
tooltip.show_all()

# Mappings for all the color values (described in readme.txt)
# TODO: Need to mark which colors do not work with which themes and double-check EVERYTHING
# * = Confirmed to work exactly for all themes (except Darklooks)
# + = Not perfect, but close?
# ? = Nothing to scrape? - Chose something similar

gtk_colors = {

# Title bars can't be accessed from PyGTK(?) so I just guessed to 
# make it work reasonably well with themes like Human.
# Default Windows theme: Darker on left, light on right
'TitleText':             window.style.white                    , #? White since we're guessing on dark selection color for titlebar
'InactiveTitleText':     window.style.white                    , #? White since we're guessing on dark selection color for titlebar
'ActiveTitle':           window.style.dark[gtk.STATE_SELECTED] , #? Guess on selection color like Clearlooks
'InactiveTitle':         window.style.dark[gtk.STATE_NORMAL]   , #? Darker color for gradient
'GradientActiveTitle':   window.style.light[gtk.STATE_SELECTED], #? Lighter version for gradient
'GradientInactiveTitle': window.style.base[gtk.STATE_NORMAL]   , #? Guess on base color   
'ActiveBorder':          button.style.bg[gtk.STATE_INSENSITIVE], #? Same as ButtonFace like Clearlooks
'InactiveBorder':        button.style.bg[gtk.STATE_INSENSITIVE], #? Same as ButtonFace

'AppWorkSpace': window.style.base[gtk.STATE_NORMAL], #? MDI not used in GTK; use same color as Window, like Glade
'Background':   None                               , #* Scraped from gconf below

'ButtonText':          button.style.fg[gtk.STATE_NORMAL]        , #* 
'ButtonHilight':       button.style.light[gtk.STATE_INSENSITIVE], #* 
'ButtonLight':         button.style.bg[gtk.STATE_INSENSITIVE]   , #* Usually same as ButtonFace?
'ButtonFace':          button.style.bg[gtk.STATE_INSENSITIVE]   , #* 
'ButtonAlternateFace': button.style.bg[gtk.STATE_INSENSITIVE]   , #* Set to same as ButtonFace for now
'ButtonShadow':        button.style.dark[gtk.STATE_INSENSITIVE] , #* 
'ButtonDkShadow':      button.style.black                       , #* 

'GrayText':         window.style.fg[gtk.STATE_INSENSITIVE], #*
'Hilight':          window.style.base[gtk.STATE_SELECTED] , #*
'HilightText':      window.style.fg[gtk.STATE_SELECTED]   , #*
'HotTrackingColor': window.style.light[gtk.STATE_NORMAL]  , #? Doesn't seem to exist in GTK; use lighter ButtonFace color, like CompizConfig Settings Manager

'InfoText':    tooltip.style.fg[gtk.STATE_NORMAL],
'InfoWindow':  tooltip.style.bg[gtk.STATE_NORMAL],

'Menu':        menuitem.style.light[gtk.STATE_ACTIVE],
'MenuBar':     menubar.style.bg[gtk.STATE_NORMAL]    ,
'MenuHilight': menuitem.style.bg[gtk.STATE_SELECTED] ,
'MenuText':    menuitem.style.fg[gtk.STATE_NORMAL]   ,

'Scrollbar':   scrollbar.style.bg[gtk.STATE_ACTIVE], #+ Not right, even though gtk.RcStyle documentation says it is
'Window':      window.style.base[gtk.STATE_NORMAL] , #* base or bg?
'WindowFrame': button.style.mid[gtk.STATE_SELECTED], #+ bg selected or light selected?
'WindowText':  window.style.text[gtk.STATE_NORMAL] , #* 
}

# As far as I know, there is no way to programmatically extract colors from GTK for the same elements in any engine, so we'll have to add engine-specific scrapers.
# "Engines can and do whatever they want with the colors from the rc file ... A theme includes both the colors, and the code that paints using colors. So the code can use any of the colors it wants."
# TODO: something like this:

print "GTK engine:",

if 'ClearlooksStyle' in repr(window.style):  # kludgy, but works
    print "Clearlooks"
    # assign different colors to some elements
elif  'MurrineStyle' in repr(window.style):
    print "Murrine"
    gtk_colors.update({'Window': window.style.base[gtk.STATE_NORMAL]})
elif 'CruxStyle' in repr(window.style):
    print "Crux"
else:
    print "unknown"
     
# QtPixbufStyle GlideStyle PixbufStyle HcStyle IndustrialStyle MistStyle ThiniceStyle darklooks = gtk.Style



# Create list of formatted color value pair strings
# Windows registry values are in the form "name"="data" with no spaces
color_pairs = []
for name, data in gtk_colors.iteritems():
    if data:
        color_pairs.append('"%s"="%s"' % (name, format_color_string(data)))


# Get Desktop background color from Gnome's GConf, append to color pair list
c = Client()
desktop_color = format_hex_color(c.get_value('/desktop/gnome/background/primary_color'))
if desktop_color:
    color_pairs.append('"Background"="%s"' % desktop_color)

# TODO: Get Desktop background color from Xfce
# import xfce4?
# "i see, yes xfce does have something like that. you find it in /home/$USER/.config/xfce4/mcs_settings/desktop.xml"


# Create a temporary Windows .reg registry file with the new values
# I'm not sure of the meaning of S-1-5-4.  This may not work on all systems? 
# I do know it is the same number under multiple accounts.
try:
    wineprefix = os.environ['WINEPREFIX']
except KeyError:
    wineprefix = os.path.join(os.environ['HOME'],'.wine')
winetemp = os.path.join(wineprefix, 'drive_c','windows','temp')
f = NamedTemporaryFile(prefix = 'winecolors', suffix = '.reg', dir = winetemp, mode = 'w+')
f.write("""REGEDIT4

[HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-4\Control Panel]

[HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-4\Control Panel\Colors]
""")

# Alphabetize list (purely so that user.reg is easy to read; Wine doesn't care)
color_pairs = sorted(color_pairs)

# Append list to file, with newlines
f.writelines(line + '\n' for line in color_pairs)
f.flush()

# Debugging
if debug_mode:
    print '---- [' + f.name + '] ----'
    f.seek(0)
    for line in f:
        print line,
    print '--------\n'

# Import values into Wine registry using regedit command
print('Using regedit to import colors into registry...\n')
os.system('regedit ' + f.name)
# TODO: Check if this worked correctly.  

# Delete temporary file
f.close()

print('Done importing colors')

# TODO: catch errors from regedit not working?

First of all, thank you for commenting your code so well.

I tried using your script and although it seemed to finish successfully it did not. Then I changed "HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-4" to "HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-0-0-0-1000" everywhere (2 places). Now it works.

To find the new value i started regedit in wine and looked in HKEY_USERS:
HKEY_USERS.Default
HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-0-0-0-1000

I hope this will help someone.

This script gives this error whenever I try to execute it

File "./wine_colors_from_gtk.py", line 26
""" Convert 48-bit gdk.Color to 24-bit 'RRR GGG BBB' triple. """
^
IndentationError: expected an indented block

Any clue how to solve this?

@ENigma885: Make sure you use Download Gist, not copy and paste. In Python, whitespace matters, and copy and pasting from websites often doesn't preserve it.

GTK engine: unknown
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./wine_colors_from_gtk.py", line 160, in
desktop_color = format_hex_color(c.get_value('/desktop/gnome/background/primary_color'))
ValueError: gconf key /desktop/gnome/background/primary_color has no value

@JoelSjogren, thanks, it's helpfull!

Nice script ! Now with this and the Luna theme, my Wine apps look much more integrated. :)
By the way, I also had the problem with 'S-1-5-4' beeing the wrong ID. It worked when using the hive HKEY_CURRENT_USER instead, and this also seems more robust.
My fork: https://gist.github.com/simonbru/d681a4fd98b34924e8c3

I don't use Ubuntu anymore, so this version will not get any updates/fixes. Use the forks, Luke.

Suggest: change HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-4 to HKEY_CURRENT_USER or HKCU.

S-1-5-4 is pointing to your local user.

Damn. I need this, but syntax complains:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "wine_colors_from_gtk.py", line 16, in <module>
    from gconf import Client
  File "/home/maus/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gconf/__init__.py", line 15
    _merged_dict: dict = {}
                ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Python 2.7
I hope, you can do something about this ;)
Thanks!

@UltraBlackLinux

I don't use Linux anymore, so try one of the forks. That looks like a syntax error in gconf, though, not in my script. Wrong Python version?