Hello,
On my desktop kdesudo launched apps have long since appeared with the system widget and color style.

So is there a way to have kdesu apps make use of the current session style?

Besides kdesu launched apps also some other apps behave the same. One of these is "ktp-text-ui" (compiled from git repo) which uses the system kde style. This is something I really don't understand.

Unless you set the System Style to be the same as your own - ie. by running System Settings as root and setting it there - then kdesu executed applications will not be affected by the current session.

As for ktp-text-ui, this is likely because it is launched by your local D-Bus session instance, which was launched so early in the session start process that it is missing out on environment variables which help KDE applications ensure the right theme, etc are applied.

bcooksley wrote:Unless you set the System Style to be the same as your own - ie. by running System Settings as root and setting it there - then kdesu executed applications will not be affected by the current session.

As for ktp-text-ui, this is likely because it is launched by your local D-Bus session instance, which was launched so early in the session start process that it is missing out on environment variables which help KDE applications ensure the right theme, etc are applied.

Thanks for the hint about kdesu. I hope in the future more system applications will get rid of kdesu and make use of polkit.

Anyway ktp-text-ui appears with the system style also if I launch it from the terminal. Maybe this is something out of scope of my knowledge.

Hmm... if you run ktp-text-ui as follows, does it crash by any chance?

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ktp-text-ui -style oxygen

bcooksley wrote:Hmm... if you run ktp-text-ui as follows, does it crash by any chance?

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ktp-text-ui -style oxygen

Well, It happened that ktp-text-ui no more runs if directly called from the terminal. It stalls forever waiting to connect to some socket, maybe this is the expected behaviour.

Anyway if called from within ktp-contactlist it keeps running with the wrong widget style.
Weird thing is that running kcmshell from within a root session does nothing. If I change some widget style or window decorations, they are not committed at all.
File permissions in ~/root/.kde appear to be correct.

Ok, it seems that it is missing out on some session information then. Please ask on the kde-telepathy@kde.org mailing list about this to see if they have any ideas in regard to this.

I found out this is a known bug related to dbus activated applications:

Workaround at the end of this page: http://community.kde.org/Real-Time_Communication_and_Collaboration/Troubleshooting#TroubleShooting