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#1 2018-06-21 14:54:33

memeplex
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Can't make dropbox honour my desktop & icon themes

The installed dropbox version is 52.4.58-2.

I've tested this in gnome with qt5ct properly configured (using kvantum). Every other qt app pick the right theme.

I've tested in in plasma also, no better luck there.

The symptoms are:

1. The icons in the icon theme are not used. The only way to override the icons that come with dropbox is to produce png files from the theme svg ones and to put them under hicolor/22x22 (or to overwrite the ones in the dropbox installation).

2. When I open the preferences dialog from the menu it always displays the same vanilla theme, no matter the gtk theme config, the qt theme config, the qt5ct theme config...

3. When I quickly click the indicator icon twice in a row two menus are open! The vanilla one and a correctly themed version of it. When clicking once only the correctly themed menu shows up. Regarding point 2: it doesn't depend on which menu I open the preferences dialog from, there are no Jekyll & Hyde symptom for the preferences dialog.

Any ideas? I know everyone and their dog is having similar problems with dropbox since years ago but a guy in the papirus development team showed me a screenshot of his perfectly looking dropbox and I got mad.

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#2 2018-06-21 15:43:20

arojas
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Re: Can't make dropbox honour my desktop & icon themes

Dropbox uses its own embedded copy of Qt, so it won't pick up your settings.

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#3 2018-06-21 15:46:19

memeplex
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Re: Can't make dropbox honour my desktop & icon themes

That was what I thought but then I would have to believe that this screenshot is fake, which I seriously doubt: https://github.com/PapirusDevelopmentTe … -399003533?

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#4 2018-06-21 16:08:51

arojas
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Re: Can't make dropbox honour my desktop & icon themes

There may be some hacks to force it to use the system-wide Qt by selectively removing some of the bundled libraries, but it doesn't look straightforward.

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#5 2018-06-23 17:55:55

memeplex
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Re: Can't make dropbox honour my desktop & icon themes

I got sick of trying to make dropbox GUI behave properly and opted for https://www.reddit.com/r/gnome/comments … after_326/.

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#6 2018-07-02 20:56:42

memeplex
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Re: Can't make dropbox honour my desktop & icon themes

I've created a package with png versions of papirus adapta nokto theme dropbox svg icons:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/adap … box-icons/

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#7 2019-11-10 09:19:31

coxackie
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Re: Can't make dropbox honour my desktop & icon themes

There is really no other way to bend the theme of dropbox tray icon in order to respect the set ones? I am using adwaita-qt dark and qgnomeplatform, menu is always the same white vanilla nightmare.

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