GTK apps look 'n' feel

[hrvoje s]

On Thursday 20 of October 2011 18:03:13 Martin Bretschneider wrote:
> Am 20.10.2011 17:57, schrieb Mark Greenwood:
> 
> Hi Mark,
> 
> I also do have the same problem. In Kubuntu 11.04 gtk apps linke evince
> got the theme adjusted in the "gtk appearance setting" of the "system
> settings". Since the update to 11.10 the have the ugly default gtk style.
> 
> Does anyone knows the solution?
> 
> TIA  Martin
> 
> > Hi Glenn,
> > 
> > It looks to me like the app you're running is running as root (or via
> > kdesudo), in which case yes it will look like that since the GTK look
> > and feel only applies to apps running as the current user.
> > 
> > You used to be able to fix this by symlinking some appropriate
> > directories into /root... but I don't know if this still works. Google
> > may help but if I were you I'd just live with it.
> > 
> > Mark
> > 
> > On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Glenn Holmer <shadowm at lyonlabs.org
> > 
> > <mailto:shadowm at lyonlabs.org>> wrote:
> >     Is this the way GTK apps are supposed to look? Can I make them
> >     look
> >     better?
> >     
> >     http://lyonlabs.org/gtk-theme.png
> >     
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/825858

This GTK "ugliness" is caused by missing oxygen-gtk3