I was wondering if there was a way for all the GTK apps I use to have a custom gnome theme used with them instead of the normal theme.

This should be possible. After you've installed your GTK theme you can install gtk-qt-engine. It has a System Settings module that will allow you to choose your GTK theme among the ones you have installed. (System Settings -> Appearance -> GTK Styles & Fonts) You can also set it to attempt to mimic your current Qt4/KDE4 theme, but that's really buggy.

JontheEchinda wrote:This should be possible. After you've installed your GTK theme you can install gtk-qt-engine. It has a System Settings module that will allow you to choose your GTK theme among the ones you have installed. (System Settings -> Appearance -> GTK Styles & Fonts) You can also set it to attempt to mimic your current Qt4/KDE4 theme, but that's really buggy.

Well i installed in and I see my default gtk themes bu8t none of the new themes I install while in Gnome.

Do I need to run kbuildsycoca4 or something?

This could be because GNOME is installing them to a per user location, and KDE is only searching for system wide themes.
You can try running "kbuildsycoca4" ( with --noincremental" for good measure ) however if it doesn't work, please contact the developers of the Gtk KCM.

Thaidog wrote:I was wondering if there was a way for all the GTK apps I use to have a custom gnome theme used with them instead of the normal theme.

Just download gtk theme, unpack it where you want and:
1. for gtk 1.2 create file ~/.gtkrc-1.2

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include "/path/to/theme/theme_name/gtkrc"

style "user-font"
{
fontsel="-microsoft-verdana-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-2"
}
widget_class "*" style "user-font"

2. for gtk 2.0 create file ~/.gtkrc-2.0

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include "/path/to/theme/theme_name/gtkrc"
gtk-font-name = "verdana 10"

Change the fonts for the ones you want.

bcooksley wrote:This could be because GNOME is installing them to a per user location, and KDE is only searching for system wide themes.
You can try running "kbuildsycoca4" ( with --noincremental" for good measure ) however if it doesn't work, please contact the developers of the Gtk KCM.

Well it did not seem to take... I will contact Gtk KCM devel - thx!

zakonnik wrote:

Thaidog wrote:I was wondering if there was a way for all the GTK apps I use to have a custom gnome theme used with them instead of the normal theme.

Just download gtk theme, unpack it where you want and:
1. for gtk 1.2 create file ~/.gtkrc-1.2

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include "/path/to/theme/theme_name/gtkrc"

style "user-font"
{
fontsel="-microsoft-verdana-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-2"
}
widget_class "*" style "user-font"

2. for gtk 2.0 create file ~/.gtkrc-2.0

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include "/path/to/theme/theme_name/gtkrc"
gtk-font-name = "verdana 10"

Change the fonts for the ones you want.

I created the .gtkrc-2.0 like you said but it did not take. I looked in my home directory and there is a similar file:

.gtkrc-2.0-kde4

I edited this one to look like this:

[tylerm@iccproject ~]$ cat .gtkrc-2.0-kde4
# This file was written by KDE
# You can edit it in the KDE control center, under "GTK Styles and Fonts"

include "/home/tylerm/.themes/Vista"
# include "/etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"

style "user-font"
{
font_name="Sans Serif"
}
widget_class "*" style "user-font"

gtk-theme-name="Vista"
gtk-font-name="Sans Serif 10"

I logged out and logged back in but the theme did not take but the theme did change to the gnome default theme. Any ideas?

In "include" statement you have to provide path to gtkrc file inside the theme folder.
Should work when /home/tylerm/.themes/Vista/gtk-2.0/gtkrc = true.

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# This file was written by KDE
# You can edit it in the KDE control center, under "GTK Styles and Fonts"

include "/home/tylerm/.themes/Vista/[u]gtk-2.0/gtkrc[/u]"
# include "/etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"

style "user-font"
{
font_name="Sans Serif"
}
widget_class "*" style "user-font"

gtk-theme-name="Vista"
gtk-font-name="Sans Serif 10"

All you need to do after changes in ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file is restart gtk app. That should do the trick. It works for me.

zakonnik wrote:All you need to do after changes in ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file is restart gtk app. That should do the trick. It works for me.

I changed it to this after I copied vista to /usr/share/themes and chown -R to root:

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# This file was written by KDE
# You can edit it in the KDE control center, under "GTK Styles and Fonts"

include "/usr/share/themes/Vista/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"
# include "/etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"

style "user-font"
{
        font_name="Sans Serif"
}
widget_class "*" style "user-font"

gtk-theme-name="Vista"
gtk-font-name="Sans Serif 10"


It still does not want to work. What do you mean by "estart gtk app"? I logged off an back in and it did not seem to work.

I've tried to set gtk theme in ~/.gtkrc-2.0-kde4 file, that gives me no result.
What works is ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file:

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include "/home/zakonnik/themes/BlackGarden/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"
gtk-font-name = "verdana 10"

IMHO gtkrc-2.0-kde4 is used by kcontrol.

Thaidog wrote:What do you mean by "estart gtk app"?

Close it and open again

http://js1008.ovh.org/screen1.png
http://js1008.ovh.org/screen2.png

zakonnik wrote:I've tried to set gtk theme in ~/.gtkrc-2.0-kde4 file, that gives me no result.
What works is ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file:

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include "/home/zakonnik/themes/BlackGarden/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"
gtk-font-name = "verdana 10"

IMHO gtkrc-2.0-kde4 is used by kcontrol.

Thaidog wrote:What do you mean by "estart gtk app"?

Close it and open again

http://js1008.ovh.org/screen1.png
http://js1008.ovh.org/screen2.png

Still no go... not sure if I'm missing something. I changed the .gtkrc-2.0 file (and erased the package gtk-qt-engine):

include "/usr/share/themes/Vista/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"

gtk-font-name="Sans Serif 10"

Closed and reopened Thunderbird... the default Fedora gtk theme is there - no vista theme still.

Thaidog wrote:Still no go... not sure if I'm missing something. I changed the .gtkrc-2.0 file (and erased the package gtk-qt-engine):

include "/usr/share/themes/Vista/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"

gtk-font-name="Sans Serif 10"

Closed and reopened Thunderbird... the default Fedora gtk theme is there - no vista theme still.

hmmmmm, now that's weird. Supposed to work in that way...
I've downloaded this theme http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show. ... ent=101019 and it doesn't work for me as well O.o
Sorry, but I can't think of anything to fix it. As on all pages from google that should work.

zakonnik wrote:

Thaidog wrote:Still no go... not sure if I'm missing something. I changed the .gtkrc-2.0 file (and erased the package gtk-qt-engine):

include "/usr/share/themes/Vista/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"

gtk-font-name="Sans Serif 10"

Closed and reopened Thunderbird... the default Fedora gtk theme is there - no vista theme still.

hmmmmm, now that's weird. Supposed to work in that way...
I've downloaded this theme http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show. ... ent=101019 and it doesn't work for me as well O.o
Sorry, but I can't think of anything to fix it. As on all pages from google that should work.

e-mailed the developer at: http://gtk-qt.ecs.soton.ac.uk/

Hopefully he will get back to me. It is strange that some themes work, ie the default themes, and that you can not just add the themes and edit the text file... you can just change the text file and it changes themes that were already in there though.

Just to make sure I was not missing something I did a fresh install of Kubuntu and it will not work with that disto either. (I'm on FC10)

The GTK-Qt-Engine developer has disappeared as far as we can tell, so I wouldn't get your hopes up in getting a reply.

JontheEchinda wrote:The GTK-Qt-Engine developer has disappeared as far as we can tell, so I wouldn't get your hopes up in getting a reply.

Disappeared???