Howto: Make Qt/KDE apps look like Gnome ones!

[Vadi]

Aa... add the Medibuntu repository, then you can install Skype.

[Vadi]

For some strange reason, the 64bit version compiled fine, but the 32bit one gives an error.

[ukdmbfan]

Bit of a problem - for some reason I cannot get the Gtk theme to appear under "Select GUI Style" in qt4-config.

sudo make install wanted to install the theme under /usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.4.2-snapshot-20080904/plugins/styles and I also copied the file to /usr/lib/qt4/plugins/styles but neither seems to have any effect. Should this file be somewhere in particular for qt4-config to pick it up and use it?

[Vadi]

See where other styles are installed, and try placing it into there?

[conscious]

Are these debs for Hardy only? I'd like to install QGtkStyle on Intrepid.
Also, you can set up a PPA in Launchpad so that people can install QGtkStyle with apt/Synaptic and receive updates via Update Manager.

[Vadi]

I can't setup a PPA, I don't know how to do one (and learning one is a very, very complex process which I don't have time for).

Intrepid, hmm I'm not sure.

[rebegin]

I can't setup a PPA, I don't know how to do one (and learning one is a very, very complex process which I don't have time for).

Intrepid, hmm I'm not sure.

i'm running it on xubuntu intrepid, works great, the only problem that whenever a qt4 program started, my desktop background disappears, so i have to run xfdesktop to get it back(anyway i had this problem on hardy too...).
any solution for that?
great app. by the way

[Vadi]

No idea. I didn't make the app; it's made by a Qt employee: http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2008...ing-qgtkstyle/

[rebegin]

i installed it from svn it works fine now

in case someone else has the same poblem with the deb installed on the top of this thread, here's how you can install itt from svn:

sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev libqt4-dev build-essential libqt4-dev subversion checkinstall

svn co svn://labs.trolltech.com/svn/styles/gtkstyle

cd gtkstyle/

qmake && make

checkinstall

sudo dpkg -i gtkstyle<TAB>

[rebegin]

Hmmm...I installed qt4-qtconfig and followed your instructions, but the only program that actually uses the GTK theme is the qtconfig program...

you can make it work like this:

sudo apt-get install kdebase-workspace systemsettings

it installs some other packages but then you can find systemsettings in the menu and change the theme and colors as you want easily.