Using Synaptic in KDE4

[Neo Adventist]

Hello! I'm currently using KDE4 in Kubuntu 9.04

As a graphical package manager, I really prefer Synaptic over Adept or Kpackagekit.

Not wanting to download half of Gnome just to get Synaptic in KDE4, I did this:


sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends synaptic

Synaptic works great as always. But without the Gnome libraries, Synaptic is now butt-ugly and looks like a Win95 app. XD

Is there some way of making Synaptic appear more KDE4-ish? synaptiK?

[Tibuda]

In Gnome, if I switch the Qt theme to QGtkStyle, my ugly Qt applications will mimic my Gtk+ theme. Maybe there's something like that for Qt too.

EDIT: You have to install the gtk-qt-engine package, and change the Gtk+ theme to GtkQtEngine.

[I_can_see_the_light]

Yes, install gtk-qt-engine like danielrmt suggested, then you should be able to change the style of your gtk apps by opening system settings > appearance.

Then link the file .gtkrc-2.0-kde4 in your home folder to /root/.gtkrc-2.0

Like this:
sudo ln -s ~/.gtkrc-2.0-kde4 /root/.gtkrc-2.0

Edit: For security reasons it's better to
sudo cp ~/.gtkrc-2.0-kde4 /root/.gtkrc-2.0 but then you have to do that every time you change your kde theme.

[Neo Adventist]

Ahhhhh, much better on the eyeballs! Thank you both! :D