GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 519706
enable basic Qt theming - towards a unified Desktop experience
Last modified: 2009-11-15 00:03:05 UTC
related to INCOMPLETE bugs Bug 98641 – Export theme, fonts and colors to the KDE/Qt world Bug 81018 – Add a qt plugin to metatheme mail from Piotr Zaryk I have a suggestion that GNOME-theme-manager should create a qt configuration files describing proper colours (the same as the gnome theme) so that Qt applications (ex. Opera) would be well-integrated with Ubuntu desktop. Some nice qt engine also should be installed by default (polymer?). On the default Ubuntu installation Qt applications look very ugly. There could be a simple checkbox in the GUI "Qt integration" defying if use that function or not. KDE users has such feature and gtk applications look good in KDE. Brainstorm idea: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/1744/
Example mechanism of that enhancement: Clicking "Qt integration" will cause: * checking if polymer qt theme is installed in the system ** if not it should notify user about that or run package manager and install the package * setting proper colors in qtconfig file
I think that it's not hard to implement it. Maybe gnome should have polymer installed by default? The checkbox should be checked by default in my opinion.
This web page shows how much this few changes can improve the appearance of the qt applications: http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/02/11/theme-qt3-applications-in-gnome/
Opera with and without the changes: http://trihelix.interkar.pl/good-looking-opera.jpg http://trihelix.interkar.pl/uglyopera-bydefault.jpg
I don't think this is a preference worth exposing in the UI. It should either be enabled by default, or not implemented.
Thomas: or maybe it can be set via gconf. But I agree that it should not go to the UI.
I agree. If it would be ENABLED by default there's no need to expose it in the UI. Is there anybody who could implement such feature?
gnome-theme-manager has been superseded by gnome-appearance-properties.
Maybe you should visit: http://labs.trolltech.com/page/Projects/Styles/GtkStyle Seems to make qt apps look like gtk+ (except icon theme)
*** Bug 576200 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Seems to me that using QGtkStyle is the best option for users to get their QT applications looking like GTK+. It considers not only colours, but drawing style as well. Therefore, I'm going to mark this as WONTFIX.