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ivan wrote:As for the GTK in KDE, it appears to be available in the trunk.

It is a qt4.5 feature, not a kde feature

ivan wrote:As for the GTK in KDE, it appears to be available in the trunk. I've just went to SysSettings to tweak Oxygen a bit, when I found a Widget Style: GTK+. Though there is a need for an external application to set the default GTK theme.

Yeah now that you say it, there really is such an option.
An application with which you can set the GTK theme is the gtk-qt-engine, which integrates itself into the systemsettings.

What really is needed, is an apllication to "install" new GTK themes...
I have no clue where I should put new themes (I'm sure google can help with that though )

This would be good if well implemented.

Actually, the whole appearance module needs a rework. Instead of showing soo many options (is the biggest module), it would be a lot better if it work like the GTK dialogue (which is fairly better). Actually, it would be great if the themes engines were just that, and themes, by their extension, could be related to certain engine (regardless of how different or customizable is the engine), for example, a "theme" could just be a ".theme" with a "color scheme file" and the "theme" which is only a certain configuration to the given engine. Kinda like the whatever.theme (which is in fact just a tarball or something like that) containing a "whatever.bespin" means it's a bespin theme, so it applies the bespin theme with that configuration (and the bundled color scheme or other settings, like the icon theme).

This could work with everything a ".oxygen", ".skulpture", ".quantum" or ".GTK". It should only apply the engine and the configuration. It would be a lot more transparent for the user, themes could be listed on the main window, and a "Customize or details" could contain the rest of the features now showed directly.

It think I will add this as an specific idea, this would mean that, for KDE, users could have both, all Qt themes and all GTK themes. The only possible problem would be the GTK engines, which also need to be installed, but, by using packagekit, or just by suggesting installing certain engine should be enough.

@aapgorilla
Yes I know (did you see the Developer tag on me ), but I wanted to say that it is available from the System Settings.

@augustofretes
The settings module appearance is a completely different topic, so, please don't start the discussion about it here.

#ivan
"My guess is that this is voted 'bad' because of the wording of the proposal. As long as this is about supporting GTK themes in KDE, it's OK. But the poster relly did a bad job writing it (esp. the title)...". My bad but my english is not perfect =P

Is there any possibility that making theme a "free desktop" standard so it can bridge the gap between KDE and GNOME?

I just installed Kde 4.3 from svn and this option is now available =D!

It is not possible to create a freedesktop.org standard because Qt requires that styles are written in C++, while Gtk requires images or colours to be specified ( Qt treats colours and styles separately, while Gtk treats them as the same thing )

I dont get it.. i am using gtk in kde for a long time...

simply chose GTK+ in the dropdown menu in Systemsettings -> Appearance -> Styles... Whats missing tho is the use of the associated color theme...

It's not that you can't configure GTK from KDE, its just that you can make KDE use GTK themes since they are fundamentally different.