[arch-general] Frustrated with Crappy looking Firefox and OpenOffice GTK & QT themes?

[Partha Chowdhury]

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_Applications