User Interface Congruence

Jason Benjamin hexusnexus at gmail.com
Mon Sep 12 00:22:46 UTC 2016


QT --

Unless you include themes (example) with Ubuntu:

http://www.deviantart.com/browse/all/?section=&global=1&q=kde+ambiance+theme

http://www.deviantart.com/browse/all/?section=&global=1&q=kde+radiance+theme&offset=0


On 09/06/2016 02:16 PM, Jason Benjamin wrote:
>
> 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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