Unified Qt/GTK2-themer!

Cossins · Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 7:11 pm Post subject: Unified Qt/GTK2-themer!

http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=9714
This is a theme for GTK2 which paints the widgets using Qt!
This means that KDE/Qt and Gnome/GTK2 apps look exactly (almost) the same, regardless of the theme.

If you shouldn't have realized it, this is great news!

- Simon
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Cossins · Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 7:35 pm Post subject:

Oh, and I forgot to mention: I had to tinker with the Makefile.am to make it compile.

Here's how I made it work: (Qt 3.2.x from KDE CVS, GTK+ 2.2.4)
- Changed QTDIR to /usr/qt/3
- Changed -lqt-mt to -lqt in libqtengine_la_LDFLAGS

Do the above before running configure and make, and your set!
Also, to make GTK+2 register the theme, I ran configure this way:

shm · Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 10:46 pm Post subject:

totally elite.
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shm · Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 11:01 pm Post subject:

I got it to work by editing the Makefile itself, just changing the QTDIR.. editing the Makefile.am didn't work :/

buggy, but *extremely impressive*
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RedBeard0531 · Guru Joined: 21 Sep 2002 Posts: 415 Location: maryland

oooo, plasik, in gtk apps, yummy!!!

I want crystal too

since qt rendering is faster than gtk, after som optimisation will this be faster thn native gtk, or will it be as slow as both combined?
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Cossins · Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2004 12:10 pm Post subject:

tactless · Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2004 12:16 pm Post subject:

My idea of the future of toolkits: Multiple toolkits going through a single renderer (of your choice). For example, the developer will be able to write his application in toolkit 1 (because it's simpler to write for), toolkit 2 (because it works in plain C) or toolkit 3 (because it has really slick perl bindings) - all of which would go through some sort of standardized rendering protocol to the rendering engine of your choice: Engine 1 (because it was installed by default), engine 2 (because it's way faster, albeit ugly), or engine 3 (because it's 3D, man!

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In any case, this is a cool step in the right direction, although I imagine it might be faster the other way around... A QT theme that renders GTK+-2 themes. Ebuild?
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shm · Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2004 1:09 pm Post subject:

lurid · Guru Joined: 12 Mar 2003 Posts: 595 Location: Florida

Damnit, someone beat me to it! I knew I should have finished this before bed. :P Anyway, this engine actually does work quite nicely. My GTK apps are happily using my KDE theme (baghira) with no problems at all.

Here is my ebuild. Aside from using Portage, this also patches up the Makefile to reflect where Gentoo installs Qt since the authors ./configure doesn't check for that. Just unpack in your overlay dir, emerge it, then open gnome-theme-manager and under Controls select Qt. Suddenly, all your GTK apps will look like your KDE ones! Its magic!

Note: The files in this build are comming off my personal server, which may or may not be able to deal with a lot of users downloading from it. The files are very small (164k total) so I think it'll work ok, if not, be patient. I have to use my server (for now) because Portage doesn't seem to care for KDE-Look's php based download urls much.
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Cossins · Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2004 3:15 pm Post subject:

Great!

In order to apply the theme without installing Gnome ( :roll:

), put this in ~/.gtkrc-2.0:

lurid · Guru Joined: 12 Mar 2003 Posts: 595 Location: Florida

Yeah, that too. This is nice because I prefer Gaim to Kopete and Evolution to KMail. Generally I just loaded gnome-settings-daemon before KDE so that everything would (mostly) work together. Using the gtk-2.0 file should eliminate the need for that.

I was just using Evolution and admiring how good it looked with my other KDE apps and when I clicked the link that lead to this thread, it opened in Firebird. Its themed like KDE too! God, I'm loving this.
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shm · Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2004 4:16 pm Post subject:

Is it just me or all non-active firebird tabs half sized while using the Qt engine? I might have to upgrade firebird since I haven't updated it in a while.
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Angrybob · Guru Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Posts: 575

ooohh sounds cool, anybody got some screenshots? I'd like to see nautilus running with the kde plastic theme

scoobydu · Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2004 6:02 pm Post subject:

Interesting

Looks like this is worth a try :lol:

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lurid · Guru Joined: 12 Mar 2003 Posts: 595 Location: Florida

I don't have the plastic theme anymore, it was ok, but I prefer Baghira. So, here is a shot of Konqeror and Nautilus running side by side, both using Baghira (and my grey color scheme). It also works great on Evolution and Gaim. The only major difference is that the tool buttons aren't themed. I notice that Gimp segfaults with this engine at the moment, but like the author said, it IS an 0.x release.

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Cossins · Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2004 6:27 pm Post subject:

The GIMP doesn't segfault on me, it looks gorgeous with Plastik buttons. ^_^

The fonts in Mozilla Firebird, though, are a bit large, don't know why.

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shm · Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2004 6:40 pm Post subject:

I'd like to see the engine automatically set the gtk stock icons (since apparently with gtk, it's set by the theme I guess), with the running kde icon theme.
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nempo · Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2004 7:11 pm Post subject:

mksoft · l33t Joined: 28 May 2002 Posts: 844

Hi guys,

in case you wanted an ebuild for it:

http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=9904
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lurid · Guru Joined: 12 Mar 2003 Posts: 595 Location: Florida

Wow. People are starting to make ebuild for stuff now? Usualy you just see rpm packages. Gentoo hits the big time, now! Actually, this is cool because now I don't have to be responcible for hosting the files anymore. ;)
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mksoft · l33t Joined: 28 May 2002 Posts: 844

OOps, lurid, I haven't noticed you made one as well :oops:

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gatiba · Guru Joined: 01 Sep 2002 Posts: 434

Mksoft i used your ebuild but when i set switch2 on QT, it crash with segmentation fault :oops:

cyberpatrol · Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2004 6:57 pm Post subject:

Sorry, but I don't get it to work. :-(

shm · Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2004 7:21 pm Post subject:

cyberpatrol · Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2004 7:59 pm Post subject:

I made these changes to Makefile and Makefile.am, tried it with ./configure, ./configure --prefix=/usr (/usr is the output of gtk-config --prefix) and ./configure --prefix=/usr/qt/3 but still without luck. I'm still getting many compiling errors.

The first error I get after running make is
qt_qt_wrapper.cpp:1:21: qpixmap.h: No such file or directory
and the same with many other files which are in /usr/qt/3/include.

And after these errors I get many other (syntax) errors.

Am I doing something wrong, is there some info missing or wrong in Cossin's explanation or is there a bug in the source package?