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ancient_archer

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From: Slovakia

Registered: 2010-03-13

Posts: 107

Gnome 3 applications look ugly in KDE 4

Hello guys.

It seems that Gnome 3 applications look bad. I guess it is because there is currently no unifying theme for GTK3 and KDE4.

For Qt/KDE applications, I use Oxygen theme and for GTK/Gnome applications, I use qtcurve (by qtconfig) - not Oxygen since it breaks in Gnome.

The funny thing is that obviously, GTK2 applications look normally (like gThumb 2.13.2) but new GTK3 applications (for example Gnome games) look bad.

I'm attaching a screenshot from one Gnome game:

http://tinypic.com/r/rh7974/7

Any ideas how to unify GTK3 and Qt4 look?

Thanks

Rasi

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-08-14

Posts: 1,914

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Re: Gnome 3 applications look ugly in KDE 4

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GN … ttings.ini

the only way to make it look really consistent is to use oxygen-gtk and oxygen-gtk3 plus the oxygen qt theme.

Last edited by Rasi (2011-09-04 13:37:58)

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Unia

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From: Stockholm, Sweden

Registered: 2010-03-30

Posts: 2,486

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Re: Gnome 3 applications look ugly in KDE 4

oxygen-gtk3

That made my GTK3 apps fail to start

Last edited by Unia (2011-09-04 14:07:03)

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hpereira

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Registered: 2010-12-21

Posts: 4

Re: Gnome 3 applications look ugly in KDE 4

some comments on oxygen-gtk3. It is still in pre-alpha (namely non released) stage and being fixed when we get bug reports about it (notably we did fix a major crash for most gtk3 apps recently).
If you feel adventurous, please don't hesitate to
- try compile the code from our git repository every now and then (git clone -b gtk3 git://anongit.kde.org/oxygen-gtk)
- report bugs/crashes at https://bugs.kde.org/ (product is oxygen, component is gtk-engine)

We plan to make a first *alpha* official release within a month or so. Thanks for your patience !

Hugo

dimitar

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Registered: 2011-01-27

Posts: 59

Re: Gnome 3 applications look ugly in KDE 4

- try compile the code from our git repository every now and then (git clone -b gtk3 git://anongit.kde.org/oxygen-gtk)

... or use the AUR package