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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. Great. by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Now if they could just improve the copy-and-paste and drag-n-drop integration issues (hint: There are Freedesktop.org standards for these, developers please, please, please make your apps support these), we'd be all set.

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  2. Native QT look for GTK programs? by Hatta · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How about the other way around? QT is far more attractive than GTK. And QT's file dialog doesn't suck nearly as bad as the GTK file dialog. Replacing that abomination would be the best thing to ever happen to linux on the desktop.

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    1. Re:Native QT look for GTK programs? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Reskinning GTK apps to look like QT apps has been around for about 5 years with the gtk-qt-engine.

  3. Unification! by VincenzoRomano · · Score: 1, Insightful

    All we need is unification of thechnologies: one to rule them all. With less fragmentation in resources we could get better products, while the customisability would remain untouched.

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    1. Re:Unification! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Unification is BAD.
      This is true for software, markets, companies, countries, parties, and so on.

      The reason is, that there are different parts, because not every human wants exactly the same (feature, leader, laws, philosophy, target), and sometimes those things don't mix. If you force it anyway, most poeple will be unhappy most of the time.

      In this example we have the KDE people, who go for maximum configurability (at least until 4.0 where they went insane), and the Gnome people, who go for maximum "easyness".

      I peronally think, the genome philosophy is the most stupid thing you can do, because you'll end up with the notepad of the desktop environments. But hey, others are happy with it (some people like pain too ;), so why force them to something they're unhappy with.

      And this is the central point: If you unify them, many people will be unhappy, and they will have NO OTHER OPTION. Sometimes you can't just add a option to switch between preferences. (Eg. developer's philosophy).

      Oh, and i will never get it, why most people sill haven't got it, that you can have a "beginner" mode and then gradually enable options, depending on how much of a power user the person is. (Of course you should let him decide). Every game has it. Why not evey program... The whole OS...

  4. Hot damed! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Now KDE and my Qt apps can be as ugly as the Gnome apps! Whoohoo!

  5. Re:How about GNUstep? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The widgets are fugly. Camaelon is pretty ugly, too.