[arch-general] Frustrated with Crappy looking Firefox and OpenOffice GTK & QT themes?
After mucking around trying to get firefox and openoffice to look right, I thought I would pass on a few tips. For those of you that know already, just hit delete. The dull boxy appearance of both GTK and some Qt apps left me scratching my head for the right tools to fix the look. The normal qtconfig and gtk2_prefs just didn't do it for all applications (like basket and other kde3 now sort of kde4 apps) Trial and error and google helped. The main tools are: GTK Preferences (ff has both GTK and Qt) /usr/bin/gtk2_prefs (themes and more) /usr/bin/gtk-chtheme (change theme ** Don't over look this one) Qt Preferences /usr/bin/qtconfig (themes and more) ** also the gnome-control-center collects most of the tools for you in one place. I don't use gnome, but I installed the control center for convenience. The packages involved are (with the addtional nice themes): GTK TOOLS & ENGINES gnome-control-center 2.28.1-1 gtk2_prefs 0.4.1-1 gtk 1.2.10-9 gtk2 2.18.3-2 gtk-kde4 0.9b-3 gtk-chtheme 0.3.1-4 gtk1-engines 0.12-2 gtk-engines 2.18.4-1 gtk-qt-engine 1.1-1 gtk-aurora-engine 1.5.1-1 gtk-engine-murrine 0.90.3-1 gtk-rezlooks-engine 0.6-8 gtk-smooth-engine 0.6.0.1-3 QT TOOLS & PACKAGES qt3 3.3.8-13 qt 4.5.3-3 qtcurve-gtk2 0.69.2-1 qtcurve-kde3 0.69.1-1 qtcurve-kde4 0.69.2-1 THEMES gnome-icon-theme 2.28.0-1 gnome-themes 2.28.1-1 gnome-themes-extras 2.22.0-1 murrine-themes-collection 20090906-1 qtcurve-gtk2 0.69.2-1 Install what you want, then just run gtk2_prefs and/or gtk-chtheme (if you installed the additional themes), then finish up with qtconfig. You have to shut down and restart you application for the changes to take effect, but when you are done, you will have some really good looking GTK and QT themes and decorations. (you can even select Oxygen as your GTK and Qt theme) The theme packages above have both light and dark themes. You can find some additional/better themes at art.gnome.org Here is an example of firefox and openoffice with the touch-ups applied (60k): http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/fixes/gtk-qt-example.jpg -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Have you tried the qtcurve unified theme? It's very nice and the GTK theme
matches the QT theme to just about every detail.
On Nov 12, 2009 2:09 AM, "David C. Rankin"
On Thursday 12 November 2009 01:36:36 and regarding:
Have you tried the qtcurve unified theme? It's very nice and the GTK theme matches the QT theme to just about every detail.
Yes I have and I like it! --- but, kde4 keeps breaking it (or maybe the configs for enlightenment, lxde, etc...) But I will switch to kde4, openoffice will be stuck with a black theme and high-contrast icons -- YUK!, then I go delete the gtk and qt files in ~/ and ~/.config and reset the config and all is good again -- until the next time :p Right now I have qt set to oxygen (good dark gray), and I have gtk set to "NOX" plus a few tweaks to the highlight and pop-up colors. Looks fantastic. Also, never having used gnome, I loaded it as well. Shoot, that desktop works just fine. I don't know what all the bashing was about. I actually worked for a couple of hours without having to write a single bug report and kde.org. Imagine that... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 01:08:04AM -0600, David C. Rankin wrote:
After mucking around trying to get firefox and openoffice to look right, I thought I would pass on a few tips. For those of you that know already, just hit delete.
The dull boxy appearance of both GTK and some Qt apps left me scratching my head for the right tools to fix the look. The normal qtconfig and gtk2_prefs just didn't do it for all applications (like basket and other kde3 now sort of kde4 apps) Trial and error and google helped. The main tools are:
i faced a similar problem (gtk application looking horrible in kde) and applied this fix [1]. Now gtk apps look nice in kde. [1] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kde#KDE_4_Theme_Integration_with_GTK_App...
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David C. Rankin
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