Providing a consistent UI across applications in Kubuntu

Martin Laberge mlsoft at videotron.ca
Mon Nov 10 21:21:34 UTC 2008


On Monday 10 November 2008 11:55:29 Dotan Cohen wrote:
> Currently, GTK apps and KDE apps have different File Chooser dialogs
> in Kubuntu. This confuses users as one expects all applications in any
> packaged OS to have a consistent UI. Please comment on this bug to
> have the GTK File Chooser wrapped in a KDE File Chooser in Jaunty:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kubuntu-meta/+bug/281834
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -- 
> Dotan Cohen
> 
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I personnaly installed kgtk-0.9.4 here to correct this situation.

then firefox and others gtk progs, present a kde file-dialog when
started with kgtk.

It works very well, but you have to compile it yourself.

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Martin Laberge
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