[gentoo-desktop] KDE and GTK themes

[gentoo-desktop] KDE and GTK themes

[Coert Waagmeester]

Hello all,

How can I get a nice theme on firefox (and other gnome gtk apps) when I 
use KDE?

I have installed the gtk qtcurve package.

Regards,
Coert

[gentoo-desktop] Re: KDE and GTK themes

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 10/15/2010 02:56 PM, Coert Waagmeester wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> How can I get a nice theme on firefox (and other gnome gtk apps) when I
> use KDE?
>
> I have installed the gtk qtcurve package.

Also install kde-misc/kcm_gtk.  This will give you a new configuration 
option in System Settings (either in "Application Appearance" or in 
"Lost and Found" if you're on KDE 4.5.2) where you can configure Gtk.

In order to configure QtCurve itself though, you will also have to 
install x11-themes/qtcurve-qt4, and switch KDE from Oxygen to that, 
configure it (this also configures the Gtk version) and then switch back 
to Oxygen (the Gtk configuration of QtCurve will be kept.)

[gentoo-desktop] Re: KDE and GTK themes

[Duncan]

Nikos Chantziaras posted on Fri, 15 Oct 2010 15:15:57 +0300 as excerpted:

> On 10/15/2010 02:56 PM, Coert Waagmeester wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> How can I get a nice theme on firefox (and other gnome gtk apps) when I
>> use KDE?
>>
>> I have installed the gtk qtcurve package.
> 
> Also install kde-misc/kcm_gtk.  This will give you a new configuration 
> option in System Settings (either in "Application Appearance" or in 
> "Lost and Found" if you're on KDE 4.5.2) where you can configure Gtk.
> 
> In order to configure QtCurve itself though, you will also have to 
> install x11-themes/qtcurve-qt4, and switch KDE from Oxygen to that, 
> configure it (this also configures the Gtk version) and then switch back 
> to Oxygen (the Gtk configuration of QtCurve will be kept.)

Of course, firefox, at least recent versions, has its own themes.  AFAIK 
theming was built-in from firefox 3.6, and I've been using those.

Meanwhile, instead of going the qt-curve or whatever route, here, I 
configure the colors in kde, and ensure that the checkbox is checked, to 
apply those to non-kde apps.  That takes care of most of it, altho it does 
depend on how you launch the app whether the kde controlled theme is in 
the environment for the gtk app, or not.  Launching from, say, konsole, 
doesn't seem to get it included by default, but if you put something like

export GTK@_RC_FILES="/home/user/.kde/share/config/gtkrc-2.0"

(adjust the path as necessary) either in a wrapper script (as I do for 
pan, since I have a wrapper for it for other reasons), or in your .bashrc 
or the like, then it should work even when launching from konsole, etc.

I think I hand-edited the file to get the font sizes, etc, but it has been 
awhile, so I don't know if kde or my hand edits are controlling it now...

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[gentoo-desktop] Re: KDE and GTK themes

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 10/15/2010 03:15 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 10/15/2010 02:56 PM, Coert Waagmeester wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> How can I get a nice theme on firefox (and other gnome gtk apps) when I
>> use KDE?
>>
>> I have installed the gtk qtcurve package.
>
> Also install kde-misc/kcm_gtk. This will give you a new configuration
> option in System Settings (either in "Application Appearance" or in
> "Lost and Found" if you're on KDE 4.5.2) where you can configure Gtk.
>
> In order to configure QtCurve itself though, you will also have to
> install x11-themes/qtcurve-qt4, and switch KDE from Oxygen to that,
> configure it (this also configures the Gtk version) and then switch back
> to Oxygen (the Gtk configuration of QtCurve will be kept.)

Oxygen has now been ported mostly correctly to Gtk and is in portage. 
Simply emerge "x11-themes/oxygen-gtk" and select "oxygen-gtk" System 
Settings (if you have kde-misc/kcm_gtk installed).  The good thing about 
this is that it's not "just a theme" with static pixmaps and colors, but 
actually honors the Oxygen settings from KDE.

This is GIMP running with it:

http://i55.tinypic.com/2n7eazr.png