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PostPosted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 6:26 pm    Post subject: Making GTK applications look good Reply with quote

Hi everyone,
Because I'm spending lots of time by using my computer appearance is very important for me. I'm a KDE user but not every application is built on KDE. My GTK based applications were looking bad but finally today I managed to fix it. I'm going to write here so that maybe it can help others like me. It is very easy.

First emerge these two packages:
    x11-themes/gtk-engines-qtcurve
    x11-themes/qtcurve-qt4


Then create a file named ".gtkrc-2.0" in your home directory put this line in it:
    include "/usr/share/themes/QtCurve/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"


That's all!

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 3:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 5:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks sempsteen, nice howto.

I like to also set the font so my .gtkrc-2.0 looks like this
Code:
$ cat .gtkrc-2.0
include "/usr/share/themes/Qt/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"

style "user-font"
{
    font_name="Dejavu Sans 10"
}
widget_class "*" style "user-font"

gtk-theme-name="Qt"
gtk-font-name="Dejavu Sans 10"
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 3:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Could you post some screenshots?
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 9:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Could you post some screenshots?


Sorry for the late reply. Here are the screenshots:
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 9:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

notHerbert wrote:
Thanks sempsteen, nice howto.

I like to also set the font so my .gtkrc-2.0 looks like this
Code:
$ cat .gtkrc-2.0
include "/usr/share/themes/Qt/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"

style "user-font"
{
    font_name="Dejavu Sans 10"
}
widget_class "*" style "user-font"

gtk-theme-name="Qt"
gtk-font-name="Dejavu Sans 10"


Thanks for the info notHerbert.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 11:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sure, no problem. :P

Here is another screenshot that shows the Gtk-2.0-Qt theme.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 4:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

notHerbert wrote:
Here is another screenshot ....
Nice cow. :)
Looks related to Larry.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 7:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for the screenshots, great tip.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 1:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

In fact if you emerge gtk-engines-qt, any of the Gtk themes can be set via GUI in the menu of KDE and Gnome. :P
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 6:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Did you grab gtk-engines-qt from an overlay? The one in portage only seems to support kde 3.5.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 7:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

this strikes me as a bit opinionized. here is a meta-tip for looking good with gtk:

emerge --search engines

pick some random ones and emerge them.

emerge gtk-chtheme

run gtk-chtheme

flip through the gtk themes until you are blue in the face.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 3:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sotol wrote:
Did you grab gtk-engines-qt from an overlay? The one in portage only seems to support kde 3.5.

I'm referring to x11-themes/gtk-engines-qt from portage, which may well not function in KDE-4. I don't know. I'm waiting for KDE-4.2.2-r2. :P




shickapooka800 wrote:
this strikes me as a bit opinionized. here is a meta-tip for looking good with gtk:


Well of course, choice of themes, wm, etc... can't be anything more than personal taste. :D

I think sempsteen's point was just to throw some ideas out there, good for me. :D

Thanks for your meta-tip, I'm going to try it right now. :P



Hmmmm
Code:
$ gtk-chtheme

(gtk-chtheme:10525): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
Segmentation fault
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 4:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

what gtk-chtheme are you running and what arch?
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 5:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is ARCH=x86 x11-themes/gtk-chtheme-0.3.1-r1

I do get the GUI but it segfaults when I click on a theme.

I was thinking just the other day that it would be nice to have a Gtk theme changer, but I was unaware of gtk-chtheme. I tried re-emerging gtk-engines. :cry:
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 3:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

notHerbert wrote:
This is ARCH=x86 x11-themes/gtk-chtheme-0.3.1-r1

I do get the GUI but it segfaults when I click on a theme.

I was thinking just the other day that it would be nice to have a Gtk theme changer, but I was unaware of gtk-chtheme. I tried re-emerging gtk-engines. :cry:


hmmm I have the same version, but am using amd64 arch. there is a gtk-chthtme-0.3.1.ebuild in the tree, maybe try that one? it is small, maybe you could compile it by hand (maybe with some debug options) and send a backtrace of the crash to the developer (or gentoo bugzilla).

edit: I assure you, this is THE gtk theme changer that people use all the time, so it should work just fine. maybe re-merge the apps in the DEPEND and RDEPEND list in the gtk-chthtme ebuild (looks like >=gtk+-2 and pkgconfig...... and its not pkgconfig's fault...)....
what are your USE flags that GTK+ cares about?

another idea: compile gtk+ with debug USE flag, then run gtk-chthtme in gdb and run a backtrace when it crashes. gtk-chthtme itself doesn't seem to be affected by the debug USE flag, so either adjust the ebuild and digest it, or compile gtk-chtheme by hand with ./configure --enable-debug. when it crashes in gdb, run `bt full' and either read through the output yourself, or post a bug with it.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 4:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

shickapooka800 wrote:
this strikes me as a bit opinionized.
++

It's kinda suggesting that the only way gtk+ can look good is by emulating kde/qt, which is just inviting yet another flamewar on that issue...

I prefer gtk-chtheme too, but you can try lxappearance instead, which is actively developed (gtk-chtheme hasn't seen any updates in over 4 years...), doesn't have any gnome dependencies either and also lets you browse and set your gtk icon theme(s).
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 7:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

timeBandit wrote:
notHerbert wrote:
Here is another screenshot ....
Nice cow. :)
Looks related to Larry.


Yep, I wonder who drewed em.
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