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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.