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Unifying GTK & QT Theme Engines

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the bringing-it-together dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Some guy on kde-look recently released code that makes gtk apps use the current qt theme. Seems this would be a major development for unifying the 2 environments. From the URL: This GTK theme engine uses the currently selected QT style to do it's drawing. Basically, it makes your GTK apps look like QT ones. "

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  1. The finbe print . . . by randyest · · Score: 4, Informative

    Seems like a start in the right direction, but don't expect something ready to roll (as I did until I checked the site):

    Currently the code is very buggy and incomplete - a few widgets do not yet use the QT drawing code. However it is still perfectly usable. This theme is slightly slower than that of most native GTK themes, but the difference is hardly noticed on a fast machine.

    Known bugs: * Menus do not have borders
    * The background colour doesn't change when text is highlighted
    * Colours are incorrect when using certain styles (eg. Keramik)
    * Buttons, and other widgets, may be the wrong size
    * Scrollbars sometimes misbehave


    This is a 0.x release - do don't expect it to work perfectly :)

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  2. That some guy is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    David Sansome... at least name the person who put in the effort to make this happen.

  3. Re:Bluecurve by pe1rxq · · Score: 5, Informative

    No, bluecurve are still seperate themes that look the same.. You need to make each theme both for gtk and for qt.
    This theme engine uses the actual qt theme and thus does not require any duplicate work when creating a theme.

    I wonder if the reverse could also be done (a qt engine that uses the gtk engine for its theme) or is gtk more flexible in this regard?

    Jeroen

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  4. Re:Bluecurve by Ralph+Yarro · · Score: 5, Informative

    Isn't this what Redhat's Bluecurve does?

    No. Bluecurve is one widget style under QT and another under GTK, that have been designed to look the same as one another.

    This system is quite different to that, it gets GTK to effectively draw widgets in the same style as the QT theme, regardless of which QT theme you're using.

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  5. Hehe by davidsansome · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's quite interesting - I was just uploading version 0.2, when I suddenly noticed kde-look.org slowing down... now I know why :)

    Anyway, 0.2 should fix some problems people have been having.

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