Created attachment 2787 Example usage of new functionality I have written a small patch for Mousepad (based on HEAD) which allows the user to specify Mousepad-specific gtkrc settings. The main advantage of this is simple color scheming without affecting every GtkTextView in every application (I like to have a light-on-dark color scheme in my text editor, but not in Firefox, for example). As an example, here's a line from my gtkrc that applies the mousepad style only to Mousepad's GtkTextView (rather than to all GtkTextViews): widget "Mousepad*GtkTextView" style "mousepad" The patch is very small but adds much usefulness, and I submitted a patch for the same changes to Leafpad last year (merged in 0.8.15). The patch for Mousepad is attached, as well as my current ~/.gtkrc-2.0 as an example.
Created attachment 2788 The patch
I think this bug is not valid anymore because Mousepad now uses GtkSourceView. Correct me if I'm wrong.
I think Mousepad has been rewritten since I filed this bug. I think you are correct that it's not valid anymore (though I don't currently have access to a Linux box to confirm). Either way, I don't think the patch will work anymore. Feel free to close this issue.
Closing.