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AleX777
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val-gaav wrote:
The User wrote:What could KDE-Developers do, when GTK+ has an ugly file-choser?

Oh and btw I have to use kgtk even for native Qt4 apps since those (smplayer, avidemux) don't use kde file picker but the default Qt one ... It is really strange that Qt4 apps now right integrate better with GNOME (with QtGTKStyle) then with Qt...


See my post here kde-and-app-integr ... l#pid56180 for a way of making QT4 apps use KDE4 dialog without kgtk.

Anyways I posted the issue in QT bugtracker and it seems it is scheduled for QT 4.6: http://www.qtsoftware.com/developer/tas ... &id=249214

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Idea updated with tags


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[quote='AleX777' pid='56495' dateline='1238144444']
val-gaav wrote:
The User wrote:What could KDE-Developers do, when GTK+ has an ugly file-choser?

Anyways I posted the issue in QT bugtracker and it seems it is scheduled for QT 4.6: http://www.qtsoftware.com/developer/tas ... &id=249214


That's really great news thank you for sharing it :)


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val-gaav wrote:Both kgtk and gtk-qt-engine should get some serious love and probably even become a default part of kde ....


Kgtk would need an extraordinary amount of love for that to happen...don't get me wrong, it's a nice hack - when it works. It's just too buggy to be bothered with ATM if you ask me. That is, it's just way too often that a program, for some reason or the other, configured to use kgtk "forgets" (which probably means kgtk crashed) that and falls back to the gtk-one instead, which rather defeats the purpose of installing it in the first place.


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@Kryten2X4B: I had similar experience with it on Kubuntu. I know that it was more on and off than anything else.
I have yet to try it in Arch.


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Are you using Kubuntu? By default, gtk apps look less less less ugly than before... in Kubuntu of course.


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Kryten2X4B wrote:Kgtk would need an extraordinary amount of love for that to happen...don't get me wrong, it's a nice hack - when it works. It's just too buggy to be bothered with ATM if you ask me. That is, it's just way too often that a program, for some reason or the other, configured to use kgtk "forgets" (which probably means kgtk crashed) that and falls back to the gtk-one instead, which rather defeats the purpose of installing it in the first place.

AFAIK it just works with some apps and doesn't work with some ... yeah it would need a lot of love but the same thing can be told about current gtk-qt-engine which also is far from perfect ...

@frustphil:

kubuntu by default uses qtcurve for gtk apps since jaunty. For me it's sill ugly ... The only thing not ugly for me would be a solution when i would really had to think hard to see any difference beetween a Qt4 app and gtk+ app. QGtkstyle is such an solution and is milles ahead from what kgtk + gtk-qt-engine provide ... That's why I said those need serious love and care. Sadly it's not how it is, because for example gtk-qt-engine seem abandoned for quite a while ...

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Since a few weeks it works nearly perfect for me:
Both, KDE- and Gtk+-Applications, use QtCurce with Oxygen-icons.
Of course: KDE has better widgets, there are a lot of toolbars, but the design is okay in Gtk+-Apps.
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jtsop wrote:sudo apt-get install kde-style-qtcurve-kdeconfig

System Settings -> Appearance -> GTK Styles -> Use another style: QTCurve

there's no such program in Debian Lenny KDE 3, any hints would be appreciated.

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The problem comes back, or it has never been solved.
viewtopic.php?f=17&t=102389
viewtopic.php?f=17&t=102539
There are many more such topics across Linux forums.

I wish KDE developers would do something about it, but I have no idea what they can do, perhaps talk to gtk 3 developers. This topic should become more upstream in Linux. I am not a developer and I don't know how to contribute to solve the problem. I wish developers of different DE would cooperate to develop appropriate tools.


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