KDE File Chooser in GTK apps on Kubuntu

[Gordon Schulz]

On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:37, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> > Could someone enlighten me why anyone developing for KDE and thus using
> > QT and kdelibs should be interested in and spending time on deploying
> > 'hacks' for GTK apps to use foreign file selectors?
> 
> Because KDE, as long as I've cared, has always had the ability to allow you
> to run GTK apps and make them look at least something like KDE.  If it
> really is possible to make GTK apps use a KDE file dialog, it's well worth
> it.  The alternative is to make every GTK app that users "must" have
> (Firefox comes quickly to mind) actually use QT instead.
I agree with you here - but then again some GNOME users will probably
want to give their right leg for Amarok to use GTK. Unless there is some
freedesktop.org standardization or well defined APIs by both KDE/QT and 
GNOME/GTK (which is pretty unlikely for something as internal as file selectors) 
anything that does what the OP linked to is pretty much a quite crude
hack in my book. Quite likely to break from version to version etc.
-- 
Gordon.