GTK apps appearance under KDE

[Richard S. Crawford]

On Tuesday 16 September 2008 06:42:12 Harald Sitter wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 September 2008 10:33:55 Lydia Pintscher wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Gordon Schulz <gordon.schulz at gmail.com>
>
> wrote:
> > > On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:35, Richard S. Crawford
> > > <rscrawford at mossroot.com>
>
> wrote:
> > >> I seem to have lost the ability to style my GTK applications (e.g.
> > >> Firefox) with my KDE look. I used to be able to go to System Settings
> > >> -> Appearance, and there'd be an option for GTK applications. That
> > >> option is gone now, and now my GTK applications look awful.
> > >
> > > Is gtk-qt-engine still installed?
> >
> > I had the same problem here. I fixed it by going to systemsettings ->
> > appereance -> GTK Styles and Fonts and setting it to "use my KDE style
> > in GTK applications". Before that it was set to "use another Style"
> > and the dropdown was empty. I am pretty sure it was not empty before
> > but I am not sure what I had set it to.
> >
> > gtk-qt-engine is installed as well as gtk-qt-engine-kde4.
>
> You probably have to do as described by Lydia ... at least in KDE 4.
>
> gtk-qt-engine from the KDE 4 PPA is the same as -kde4, so you won't be able
> to theme properly in KDE 3 anymore.
>
> The reason is that we have to force a switch to the Qt 4 version of gtk-qt-
> engine, otherwise flash in KDE 4's Konqueror is going down in no time. We
> came to the decision that ugly GTK in KDE 3 is better than a crashy
> konqueror in KDE 4.
>
> You can however add a file named '/etc/apt/preferences' with the following
> content:
> Package: gtk-qt-engine gtk-qt-engine-kde4
> Pin: release o=Ubuntu
> Pin-Priority: 1001
>
> This will give the official packages higher priority than the PPA ones and
> prevent an upgrade. It will also downgrade the package to the official
> version in case you already upgraded.
>
> I'd like to note that you should really stick with the broken GTK theming
> in KDE 3 if you use Konqueror 4.
> Also, if you are using KDE 3 and are affacted, you shouldn't leave unused
> repositories in your sources list (we made this decision partly based on
> the assumption that people who constantly have the KDE 4 PPA in the sources
> list, are actually using KDE 4).
>
> Regards,
> Harald

I got it. Thanks, Harald.

As it is, I'm still using KDE 3. I do have KDE 4 installed and have tried it a 
couple of times, but I don't really have the patience to sit down and make it 
as useful to me as the KDE 3 desktop I've tuned over the years. 

-- 
Slainte,
Richard S. Crawford
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