Jaunty: Look of gnome apps in kde

[marc]

clay weber said...
> Willy Hamra wrote:
> > 2009/4/17 marc <gmane at auxbuss.com>:
> >> Jonas Norlander said...
> >>> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 6:18 PM, marc <gmane at auxbuss.com> wrote:
> >>>> Willy Hamra said...
> >>>>> 2009/4/17 marc <gmane at auxbuss.com>:
> >>>>>> It used to be that you installed gtk2-gtk-qt for better control of GTK
> >>>>>> apps under KDE. I think it was installed by default by Kubuntu for a
> >>>>>> while. The look and feel could them be set in kcontrol.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Now, the package seems to have disappeared and, of course, kcontrol has
> >>>>>> vanished.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> So, does anyone know how you make gnome apps look like gnome apps under
> >>>>>> kde?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> see, while kcontrol did exist in KDE3 i rarely used it, and so, the
> >>>>> transition to KDE4 was easy to me :P
> >>>> Careful what you assume!
> >>>>
> >>>>> in systemsettings, go to appearance, GTK styles & fonts. cheers
> >>>> I'm not seeing what you're seeing. Oddly enough, I took a look at the
> >>>> appearance section. The options I see are: Style; Colors (sic); Icons;
> >>>> Fonts; Windows; Splash screen; Emoticons.
> >>>>
> >>>> No sign of GTK styles and fonts.
> >>> I think the package you need is gtk-qt-engine.
> >> Thanks, Jonas. Although it doesn't seem to work anymore :-(
> >>
> >> Any idea why this package has been made optional again?
> >>
> > 
> > what do you mean doesn't work? i have it in my system settings, and
> > used to always use qtcurve which looked awesome. after installing
> > GNOME, i got the human-clearlooks theme, and started using it for GTK+
> > apps, and till now, i'm sending this message from a firefox using the
> > human-clearlooks theme.
> > as for why it's optional, i have no idea, lol

Well, I tried it on synaptic and it looks ugly. But then I noticed that 
it's working in pidgin.

> It is not optional, it is installed by default, and has been for quite a 
> while.

It wasn't there, I had to install it. But I just checked aptitude and it 
is marked to be automatically installed. 

> Now why marc does not have this section in System Settings, I do not 
> know. I'll see if there are any existing bug reports on this later

It's there now that the package has been installed.

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Cheers,
Marc