How to access the theming Fonts and Colors on GTK/Gnome

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Published on 2010-05-10T21:35:56Z Indexed on 2010/05/10 22:34 UTC
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Lets say i want to write a special text editor widget.

How can i get the default themed colors for texts, selected text and background and which are the users default fonts?

I see that GNOME does define 5 special system fonts and default sizes for this purpose in the GNOME Appearance Configuration dialog, but i haven't found a single word in the GTK documentation how to access them (and the GTK mailing list is a joke:-( ).

Windows and Cocoa both give me dozens of system values.

I found the GtkStyle class but this doesn't seem to be what i need.

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