On Thursday 25 September 2003 8:48 pm, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote:
In short, gnome-setting-daemon messes up the appearance of Qt apps. I ended up _not_ using gnome-settings-daemon any more, and avoiding gtk2 apps wherever possible.
The big unsolved mystery is: why do the gnome2 settings affect Qt??? Can it be switched off?
I don't have Gnome installed on this PC as an alternative desktop, but I use Gnome programs. Last week I installed Sodipodi and FrontLine off the SuSE disks, and the fonts in GIMP et al became a large Courier-type thing. Some screensaver stuff also got installed, because I started getting screensavers (some rather nice, it has to be said) instead of a blank screen. So after downloading gLabels and having a look at it, I installed gconf-editor and control-center2 off the SuSE disks. Running CC2 fixed the fonts on Gnome apps, but, as you say, all new KDE apps started then had stupid fonts. Moreover, as before (see my 24 July post), the desktop got taken over. I ran gconf-editor and unticked /desktop/gnome/background/draw-background, as James suggested in his post of 13 September. I logged out and back in again, and Gnome fonts were back to their titchy Courier, while KDE fonts were back to normal, but at least the desktop was OK. I ran CC2 again and adjusted the Gnome fonts, whereupon they looked nice, but KDE fonts were off the wall again (not all of them - Konqueror seemed to be OK, but konsole, and such things as YaST and the kdesu password box had stupidly large fonts). Moreover, just running CC2 seemed to tell gnome-settings-daemon to do its thing, because it gaily took over the desktop again (in spite of the draw-background setting telling it not to!) So the sad conclusion seems to be that GTK2 and QT don't coexist nicely. (It may be that if you have Gnome installed as an alternative desktop, the SuSE install does some magic that sorts that out. I don't know, and for me life is too short to try it out.) The only alternative if you want a decent-looking desktop is never to launch CC2 (which starts the confounded gnome-settings-daemon, which you have to logout to get rid of), and put up with crappy fonts in Gnome apps (which means I, like you, will only use them when I absolutely have to). This seems a bit of an own-goal, really, since for the five years I have been using Linux it was always possible to have apps from Gnome looking reasonable on KDE - no longer, it seems. I conclude from this that Gnome either that needs a bit more work, or that its coders have forgotten how to play nicely :-) -- Best wishes Kevin Donnelly www.kyfieithu.co.uk - Meddalwedd Rydd yn Gymraeg