KDE styles with non-KDE apps
Folks, I'm using SuSE 9.0 with KDE 3.1 (so upgrade, they argue). Is there a way to apply KDE styles to all apps? I notice an apply-to-all choice for colors and fonts. But apps like Evolution or Firefox pick up the bubbly, default style, rather than the one I select through the control center. I'm sure I've missed something extraordinarily simple, so have mercy... With best regards, Pete -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Peter N. Spotts Science correspondent | The Christian Science Monitor One Norway Street, Boston, MA 02115 USA Office: 1-617-450-2449 | Office in home: 1-508-520-3139 Email: pspotts@alum.mit.edu http://www.csmonitor.com | http://peterspotts.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 10:46:00 -0400, Peter N. Spotts
I'm using SuSE 9.0 with KDE 3.1 (so upgrade, they argue). Is there a way to apply KDE styles to all apps? I notice an apply-to-all choice for colors and fonts. But apps like Evolution or Firefox pick up the bubbly, default style, rather than the one I select through the control center. I'm sure I've missed something extraordinarily simple, so have mercy...
KDE applications use the QT toolkit, Evolution and Firefox are applications that use the GTK+ toolkit. They can't use the same themes. They can however use similar themes. I just figured out how to do this on Suse 9.1 so i'm not sure if this will work on 9.0 but at least it's something you can try: in /opt/gnome/share/themes look for a theme that's similar to your KDE theme. if you find one, edit /opt/kde3/bin/startkde and change the GTK_THEME_RC and GTK2_THEME_RC variables so they point to the gtkrc files of the theme you have chosen. After that, restart KDE and hopefully, your GTK+ applications will look similar to your QT applications. i'm not sure if there's an easier way to do this, i really hope there is, but i asked the same question a few days ago and nobody replied so i had to figure this out myself... so this may not be the best solution, but at least it works... on suse 9.1 at least ;)
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