Building a non-KDE Qt desktop?

[sertse]

I've done a mininal install now and again, and I noticed is that it's quite easy to make a gtk desktop without bringing in the whole Gnome desktop environment. One factor is that there are lot of gtk-apps for most tasks you need that aren't tied in with Gnome. This make it quite compatible with my own Open/Fluxbox systems.

Conversely, it appears to be very difficult with Qt without KDE. What does everyone else think? Has anyone had any success?

[jrusso2]

All you need is the KDE libraries for KDE apps to run. Same as gnome.

[chucky chuckaluck]

i'm doing close to it now with openbox. i'm using opera for a browser, vlc for music and movies, juffed for a text editor (when nano won't do), fsirc for irc chatter and qbriscola for fun. i still use thunar, gimp and gcolor2, but gtk-qt-engine forces some of the qt theming on them.

someone on the arch forums started a thread about the same and listed off a huge amount of non-kde qt apps - http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=56278
i've tried a bunch of them and a lot are kind of a pain to get installed, or use.

here's another thread, too - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1016165

[jrusso2]

Almost all those appps have gtk equivalents only some may not work as well as their gtk counterparts.

[urukrama]

someone on the arch forums started a thread about the same and listed off a huge amount of non-kde qt apps - http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=56278
i've tried a bunch of them and a lot are kind of a pain to get installed, or use.

Thank you for linking to that thread. It mentions quite some interesting apps I had not heard of before. I've also added a few to the list on the Arch forums.

[chucky chuckaluck]

Almost all those appps have gtk equivalents only some may not work as well as their gtk counterparts.

i think the op is just looking to see if it's possible to do an all non-kde qt setup.

[ushimitsudoki]

Jumping in here because this is something I am interested in.

I don't like GNOME, and - at least for now - KDE 4 is too broken to be serious option. So, I'm mostly using XFCE.

I've often longed for a non-KDE QT-based DE.