Hi. I normally don't use rude words in English, but I can honestly say I always got **** when I saw the bar blending in GTK apps vs KDE4 - I like the "Cupertino'ey" look, when there are no stripes or separators between title and window contents, and it looks beatuiful in qt4 apps, and GTK apps.. well... they clearly looked out of place. Today I tried to make GTK apps little better and played with QtCurve settings to make GTK apps look nice (I mean buttons, dialogs etc., not titlebars)

I was shocked to see that at some point, Firefox bar was completely blended! That's what always annoyed me in Firefox and made me search for another browser - the look issue. I thought I made something magical at first, but now I've found it's really a bug - I use Nitrogen bar, and when there's "Radial blending" set, qt4 apps look nice and GTK bad, and when "No blending" is set, qt4 apps look bad, and GTK ones nice. Firefox simply is not affected by the changes made to Nitrogen configuration, while other GTK apps are. Firefox is set at "No blending" at all times.

This made me think - what if one could set GTK apps as no blending, AND qt4 apps as radial blending? It would made all apps look gorgeous!

See screenshots. Poedit it GTK, of course.

Blending on:

http://yfrog.com/2fradialonp

Blending off:

http://yfrog.com/0xradialoffp

This is one of the acclaimed features of the Nitrogen window decoration...

You mean the blending? I agree. But right now it can only be set globally, and what I ask about is setting it depending on whether the app is GTK or qt4 - I thought I'd share my thoughts about that and ask if it's possible (I inteded to write to the author of Nitrogen bar if you find that possible)

I think it's already possible, click the, "exceptions" box.

Oh, you are right. I'm so stupid!


That's why Firefox looked nice. But I prefer not to add Window Class rules to every GTK app that I have. Is it possible to select ALL GTK apps somehow?