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#1 2007-12-25 21:14:14
- WernerL
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gtk apps in kde has ugly menubars
Hello,
When I use an gtk application on my KDE desktop is has VERY ugly menubars. 
In firefox I could fix it by installing another theme but in apps like deluge I can't do that...
The terminal is how it should look like and the deluge window is how gtk apps look like. Any suggestions to fix this? It looks terrible. :-)
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#2 2007-12-25 21:27:58
- n8schicht
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Re: gtk apps in kde has ugly menubars
I once had the same thing going on with GTK-apps in KDE, although I used the GTK-QT-Engine. But some GTK-apps still looked terrible.
I then read in another forum that the GTK-apps are looking for a file ~/.gtkrc-2.0 but the file I had in my homefolder had the name ~/.gtkrc-2.0-kde . So I just copied .gtkrc-2.0-kde to .gtkrc-2.0 and since then everything is looking good. Try that!
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#3 2007-12-25 21:31:13
- Mantaar
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Re: gtk apps in kde has ugly menubars
That's because Gnome seems to use its default theme, which is utter ugliness. You'd better try to install some gnome themes (like community/clearlooks, which is a nice GTK-engine (aurora is good, too), and extra/gnome-themes(-extras) which provide a basic set of themes. Go to http://art.gnome.org for additional ones).
Then you have to tell GTK-apps to load that theme. I don't know if this is handled by the default arch-installs... if not, you must 'include' their gtkrc from your ~/.gtkrc-2.0.
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#4 2007-12-25 21:37:11
- synorgy
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Re: gtk apps in kde has ugly menubars
I would install gtk-chtheme and the GTK-QT engine. change the GTK engine to GTK-QT with gtk-chtheme and off you go.
"Unix is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity." (Dennis Ritchie)
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#5 2007-12-25 21:38:06
- WernerL
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Re: gtk apps in kde has ugly menubars
gtk-qt-engine thing did the trick ! Thanks guys. :-)
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#6 2007-12-25 22:13:11
- Phrodo_00
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Re: gtk apps in kde has ugly menubars
That's because Gnome seems to use its default theme, which is utter ugliness.
I know it's solved but I'd like to point out something: gtk default theme is that boxy ugly thing, the gnome gtk theme is actually, clearlooks and it's damn sexy.
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#7 2007-12-25 22:17:06
- Mantaar
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Re: gtk apps in kde has ugly menubars
Mantaar wrote:That's because Gnome seems to use its default theme, which is utter ugliness.
I know it's solved but I'd like to point out something: gtk default theme is that boxy ugly thing, the gnome gtk theme is actually, clearlooks and it's damn sexy.
Yeah, you're right, I mixed things up. 
Though I wouldn't agree that clearlooks is sexy 
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#8 2007-12-25 23:13:59
- WernerL
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Re: gtk apps in kde has ugly menubars
I don't agree with that. 
Don't like clearlooks. :+
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