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Leprkan

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From: Orlando

Registered: 2010-08-06

Posts: 17

KDE Ugly menu bar/ecliipse/chromium

I've recently switched from GNOME to KDE and it's been really great.  I've played around with all the settings but there's on thing that still nags me.  Every now and then I encounter an application or some aspect of an application that looks... ugly.  Ugly as in, black text on grey background (like MS 95).  Examples of this include Eclipse, and right-clicking a page in chromium.

Here's an example with Eclipse:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/54825724@N … /lightbox/

It's not a deal-breaker but It would be nice if someone knew why this happens and how I can fix it.

Cheers!

ZekeSulastin

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Registered: 2010-09-20

Posts: 266

Re: KDE Ugly menu bar/ecliipse/chromium

Applications that use GTK, like Eclipse and Chromium, will use the default GTK theme if none is selected; switching from GNOME to KDE (and thus from primarily GTK to primarily Qt) probably removed your previously selected GTK theme.

You should install gtk-qt-engine from the extra repo to make your GTK programs match your Qt programs

Leprkan

Member

From: Orlando

Registered: 2010-08-06

Posts: 17

Re: KDE Ugly menu bar/ecliipse/chromium

Oooh. That makes perfect sense, and simultaneously clarifies what GTK does (I'm a noob).  Thanks! Super-helpful

Leprkan

Member

From: Orlando

Registered: 2010-08-06

Posts: 17

Re: KDE Ugly menu bar/ecliipse/chromium

Problem solved! Looks beautiful.  Thanks again

ZekeSulastin

Member

Registered: 2010-09-20

Posts: 266

Re: KDE Ugly menu bar/ecliipse/chromium

No problem   Here's the Arch-wiki page describing how to go both GTK -> Qt and Qt -> GTK, for reference: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Uni … plications

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