User Interface Congruence

Jason Benjamin hexusnexus at gmail.com
Tue Sep 6 21:16:08 UTC 2016


BUMP.

Okay, overlay scrollbars can be turned off with deconf,  but Qt still 
doesn't match the theme.

I made a similar post here one time, with no answer: ubuntuforums.org 
<https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2248622&p=13144512#post13144512>

Apparently it could be a lot of themes, but I found this link: 
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1518404#p1518404

On 09/03/2016 10:31 AM, Jason Benjamin wrote:
> After testing Ubuntu Xenial Xerus, I'd wanted to check out how Gtk 3 
> interfaces blend with the other desktop libraries in the software 
> repositories.  I was very let down.
>
> Gtk 2 interfaces still use overlay scrollbars which noticeably clash 
> with the Gtk 3 applications.  LibreOffice draws with Swing using a Gtk 
> 2 style, which looks bad too.  This can be changed to Gtk 3 using 
> Synaptic, but the some of the icon controls are obscured by the dark 
> color of the default theme.  Eclipse, which is written in SWT, uses 
> Gtk 2 also, even though it's been Gtk 3 capable for a good amount of 
> time.  WxWidgets is compiled for Gtk 2, even though it can be compiled 
> for Gtk 3 support.
>
> Qt whatever the version is, is not themed like the Gtk interfaces at all.
>
> The operating system I'm using right now is Kubuntu, and this kind of 
> incongruence is virtually unnoticeable.
>

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assisted the power of his brain instead of the strength
of his arm. - Grace Murray Hopper

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