GTK-QT-Engine

tony5429 · 2008-07-28 05:26:56

I recently switched to KDE 4.1 and installed gtk-qt-engine but I cannot find it in the settings... Does GTK-QT-engine work with KDE 4+? And if not, is there another solution out there? (Firefox doesn't look too great right now...)

shining · 2008-07-28 06:07:07

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KDE … _with_KDE3

# gtk-qt-engine (i *think* gtk-kde4 replaces it in KDE4). (for now just rebuilt; done)

Peyton · 2008-07-28 14:55:44

Edit: Arch's package is out of date:

http://gtk-qt.ecs.soton.ac.uk/downloads.php

Last edited by Peyton (2008-07-28 16:14:42)

tony5429 · 2008-07-28 21:18:10

I am confused.... The gtk-qt-engine package on Arch says it was updated just yesterday (http://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86 … -qt-engine) and yet it is version 0.8... But the version as Peyton pointed out is actually 1.1, and it looks like there was a 1.0 before that. I am wondering why Arch's version was updated, but not to the newest version... Does anyone know?

Peyton · 2008-07-28 21:24:27

You'd have to contact the maintainer for a definite answer. My guess is that the changes were made just before KDE 4.1 made it into [extra]. It looks like 0.8 is the last Qt3 version.

I installed the latest version from source, though, and I'm not impressed. Color changes are not reflected in GTK applications, and the engine seems to have trouble with the Oxygen style. I'll look into it more.

shining · 2008-07-28 21:27:01

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=9631

I am not impressed either, I think the color changes were reflected (when using that qt4 engine), but the tabs in firefox 3 were rendered very weird, so I just picked my lovely mist theme. And I will try to forget about consistency.

Peyton · 2008-07-28 21:49:40

Thanks for the SVN package link.

I checked the official site, and it looks like the issue with Firefox is a known bug since verison 1.0:

A number of widgets in Firefox are themed incorrectly.

So, I guess my trouble with the Oxygen theme doesn't apply to all applications. I see now that Pidgin seems to look fine, aside from the area outside the rounded corners of some menus not being transparent. Hopefully, we'll get a fix soon.

ozar · 2008-07-28 22:16:27

tony5429 wrote:

And if not, is there another solution out there? (Firefox doesn't look too great right now...)

gtk-qt-engine has always given me various problems, so I use qtcurve-kde4, qtcurve-gtk2, and gtk-chtheme to make it all look the same:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Uni … ps#QtCurve

tony5429 · 2008-07-28 23:24:14

QtCurve sounds great; I will give it a shot. Thanks!

tony5429 · 2008-07-29 03:09:26

I installed qtcurve-kde4 and changed the widget style and window style but Firefox still looks ugly... Am I missing something?

ozar · 2008-07-29 03:17:09

tony5429 wrote:

I installed qtcurve-kde4 and changed the widget style and window style but Firefox still looks ugly... Am I missing something?

You need to install qtcurve-kde4, qtcurve-gtk2, and gtk-chtheme. They are all small packages.

Then... after choosing qtcurve in the Styles section of your KDE settings, run gtk-chtheme as regular user from a konsole and pick qtcurve as your style for gtk apps.

You'll need to close and reopen any gtk apps that were already running for the changes to show up.

Last edited by ozar (2008-07-29 03:17:51)

tony5429 · 2008-07-29 04:15:36

It works; and it looks far better than gtk-qt-engine on kde 3.5! Thanks!

shining · 2008-07-29 05:51:45

Yeah, thanks for the suggestion, I also switched to qtcurve. Now it looks nice and consistent.
Though the default kde4 theme was also cool.

libervisco · 2008-07-30 01:45:00

Qtcurve works, but while it may be sort of consistent I can't seem to use KDE's oxygen theme with it and I'd really like that one. Also, changing GTK themes with these tools (gtk-chtheme, gtk2-prefs and switch2) seems quirky. Sometimes their own preview functions don't display the actual theme being selected.

I've installed the SVN version of the gtk_qt engine, but still can't find its setting anywhere in KDE4. Any ideas?

Thanks

Peyton · 2008-07-30 03:16:38

It should be in System Settings->Appearance->GTK Styles and Fonts.

libervisco · 2008-07-30 04:14:19

Unfortunately it's not there.

Peyton · 2008-07-30 14:53:12

:-S

Could you copy and paste the output of this?

pacman -Qil gtk-qt-engine-svn

libervisco · 2008-07-30 17:24:25

Ah, my bad. I didn't notice it had conflict errors because the old non-svn version was installed. When I removed it (pacman -Rd gtk-qt-engine) and then installed the svn version it worked.

But, to be honest.. it doesn't look right. Maybe this is because I've messed things up with gtk-chtheme or whatever, but anyway. I'm hard pressed to stick with KDE4 at this point. It leaks memory which makes it slower, ark is broken and it just feels busy and in the way all the time. On the other hand, yes I love the plasma widgets, the panel, the new theme and the overall integration, but it just seems like it needs further polish. Maybe the subsequent 4.1.x releases solidify it a bit.

Thanks

kalpik · 2008-07-31 01:37:18

libervisco wrote:

Unfortunately it's not there.

Yup.. I cant find it either! Did you manage to find out where it is?

Peyton · 2008-07-31 02:19:59

kalpik wrote:

libervisco wrote:
Unfortunately it's not there.
Yup.. I cant find it either! Did you manage to find out where it is?

He had the old KDE3 version installed, which is the version in [extra]. For KDE4, you have to install gtk-qt-engine-svn from AUR:

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=9631

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