[arch-general] kde control center "Use my KDE style in GTK applications" causes ooo buttons to disappear
Listmates, I have an interesting one for you, in openOffice, all of the icons on the toolbars and all of the text of the context menus disappear when I click on a document in writer. If I brush the mouse over the toolbar or menu, the icons/text reappears while the icon or text has focus, but then disappears again when the focus leaves. I have a number of illustrative screenshots here: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/ooo/oo-menus-missing.jpg http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/ooo/oo-menus-missing1.jpg http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/ooo/oo-toolbars-missing.j... http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/ooo/oo-toolbars-missing1.... http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/ooo/oo-toolbars-missing2.... Version Information: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/ooo/oo-about.jpg The problem seems to have started after changing the kde control center setting for "Appearance & Themes" -> "GTK Styles and Fonts" -> "Use my KDE style in GTK applications". I just confirmed this on an X86_64 box that I had not made this setting on. I opened ooowriter and all buttons were there in a very flat and ugly style. I then changed the above setting which required a KDE restart. So I logged out and logged back in, reopened the same document and all of the buttons started disappearing. Has anyone else seen anything like this? More importantly, how do I fix it? -- 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 Tuesday 05 May 2009 11:47:35 David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote:
Listmates,
I have an interesting one for you, in openOffice, all of the icons on the toolbars and all of the text of the context menus disappear when I click on a document in writer. If I brush the mouse over the toolbar or menu, the icons/text reappears while the icon or text has focus, but then disappears again when the focus leaves. I have a number of illustrative screenshots here:
http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/ooo/oo-menus-missing.jpg
http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/ooo/oo-menus-missing1.jp g
http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/ooo/oo-toolbars-missing. jpg
http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/ooo/oo-toolbars-missing1 .jpg
http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/ooo/oo-toolbars-missing2 .jpg
Version Information:
http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/ooo/oo-about.jpg
The problem seems to have started after changing the kde control center setting for "Appearance & Themes" -> "GTK Styles and Fonts" -> "Use my KDE style in GTK applications". I just confirmed this on an X86_64 box that I had not made this setting on. I opened ooowriter and all buttons were there in a very flat and ugly style. I then changed the above setting which required a KDE restart. So I logged out and logged back in, reopened the same document and all of the buttons started disappearing.
Has anyone else seen anything like this? More importantly, how do I fix it?
To restore the original setting, delete ~/.kde/env/gtk-qt-engine.rc.sh and restart kde. Something is definitely amiss with that setting... -- 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
Hi, David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote:
The problem seems to have started after changing the kde control center setting for "Appearance & Themes" -> "GTK Styles and Fonts" -> "Use my KDE style in GTK applications". I just confirmed this on an X86_64 box that I had not made this setting on. I opened ooowriter and all buttons were there in a very flat and ugly style. I then changed the above setting which required a KDE restart. So I logged out and logged back in, reopened the same document and all of the buttons started disappearing.
Has anyone else seen anything like this? More importantly, how do I fix it?
I have no direct solution; when I was still using gtk-qt-engine, I was encountering weird problems all the time (fonts in menus being white instead of black which made them hard to read is one I remember the most). Then I discovered qtcurve. It's a highly configurable and a very nice (in my opinion) style for QT/KDE _and_ GTK as well. When you install packages qtcurve-kde4, qtcurve-kde3 and qtcurve-gtk2 from [community], you gain a nice, clean and unified look for all KDE, QT and GTK applications without any additional help (I don't even have that "Use my KDE style in GTK applications" option checked in KDE settings). So give it a shot, maybe you'll like it. Ondřej -- Cheers, Ondřej Kučera
I had some of these problems, it seems that going to "Appearence & Themes" > Colors and unchecking "Apply colors to non KDE applications" fixes some weired color and flat pannels (no gradients at all) problems. Now, the icon and menus problem should be caused by the gtk-qt-engine AND an specific theme you are using. I think that you should avoid it and use native themes like the gtk one that Ondřej Kučera specified. On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Ondřej Kučera <ondrej.kucera@centrum.cz> wrote:
Hi,
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote:
The problem seems to have started after changing the kde control center setting for "Appearance & Themes" -> "GTK Styles and Fonts" -> "Use my KDE style in GTK applications". I just confirmed this on an X86_64 box that I had not made this setting on. I opened ooowriter and all buttons were there in a very flat and ugly style. I then changed the above setting which required a KDE restart. So I logged out and logged back in, reopened the same document and all of the buttons started disappearing.
Has anyone else seen anything like this? More importantly, how do I fix it?
I have no direct solution; when I was still using gtk-qt-engine, I was encountering weird problems all the time (fonts in menus being white instead of black which made them hard to read is one I remember the most). Then I discovered qtcurve. It's a highly configurable and a very nice (in my opinion) style for QT/KDE _and_ GTK as well. When you install packages qtcurve-kde4, qtcurve-kde3 and qtcurve-gtk2 from [community], you gain a nice, clean and unified look for all KDE, QT and GTK applications without any additional help (I don't even have that "Use my KDE style in GTK applications" option checked in KDE settings). So give it a shot, maybe you'll like it.
Ondřej
-- Cheers, Ondřej Kučera
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Guys..... To avoid the problem with openoffice, just be sure you environement variable OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP is set to gnome: in ~/.bashrc: export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome personnaly, this fixed the problem with older versions, now i see there's a ~/etc/profile.d/openoffice-beta.sh that does just that, it is owned by openoffice-base-beta 3.1.0_ooo310_m9-1 in extra. Regards, Charly
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Adriano Moura
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Charly Ghislain
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David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
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Ondřej Kučera