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QGtkStyle Offers Native Gtk Look For Qt Programs

Posted by timothy on from the cross-platform-within-a-platform dept.

sekra writes "A new project called QGtkStyle by Trolltech Labs gives Qt4 based applications the possibility to integrate natively into Gtk based desktops like Gnome or Xfce. Instead of simply imitating Gtk styles QGtkStyle uses the Gtk theme engine directly. The project is still considered experimental, but is another step into better integration between Qt and Gtk applications. A project at Google Code has been set up as well." Anything that makes the various excellent Free software desktops work better together deserves kudos.

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  1. Qt4? We need Qt3! by IBBoard · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I read the title and thought "hurray, I can finally run the one app that I need that has a damned fugly Qt theme in amongst my Gnome desktop (VirtualBox)". Then I read the summary.

    What about all of the Qt3 apps? I know there's gtk-qt-engine to work the other way around, but given the huge number of Qt3 apps currently being used, can we not have a decent GTK look for them?

    If it wasn't for VirtualBox I wouldn't even need Qt. Amarok? No thanks, I'll take Exaile because it works and it fits in. K3B? Brasero seems to work perfectly fine to me. Erm...I'm out of remotely useful Qt/KDE apps I might want in Gnome now!