GNOME 2.30 Released; Farewell To GNOME 2.xx

[RealNC]

http://code.google.com/p/gtk-qt-engine/

I am aware of that. It's an ugly monstrosity. It's far preferable to run Gtk apps with their default style rather than that one.

[Remco]

It did happen from the Qt side. Qt apps will use the active Gtk style under Gnome. They look like Gtk apps. The reverse isn't true, Gtk apps can not use the active Qt style.

It's just sad that Gtk does not return the favor here.

http://code.google.com/p/gtk-qt-engine/

[_txf_]

It did happen from the Qt side. Qt apps will use the active Gtk style under Gnome. They look like Gtk apps. The reverse isn't true, Gtk apps can not use the active Qt style.

It's just sad that Gtk does not return the favor here.

Probably due to the fact that it is less capable of doing so...(at least properly as there are some oxygen attempts but nowhere near the equivalent to Qt)

[atmartens]

Well, you can tell KDE to make GTK+ apps use the QtCurve style. That will make them fit in pretty well. Granted, it might make some applications crash (at least on Ubuntu), but at least they will look pretty while doing so. Clearlooks doesn't fit in as well, but it doesn't make anything crash, either.

The real solution, though, is to come up with some sort of common widget theme standard so that GTK+ and Qt/KDE apps can use the same theme with ease. I have heard people talk about such things, but I have never seen anything actually happen.

Redhat tried that with Bluecurve like 10 years ago. Or is that not what you mean?

[RealNC]

http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2008/05/13/introducing-qgtkstyle/

"We already have QCleanlooks, icon themes, standard shortcuts and dialog buttons to integrate with GNOME, but to achieve true perfection we need to use the Gtk theme engine directly just like we do on Mac and Windows. QGtkStyle does exactly this"

[RealNC]

Well, you can tell KDE to make GTK+ apps use the QtCurve style. That will make them fit in pretty well. Granted, it might make some applications crash (at least on Ubuntu), but at least they will look pretty while doing so. Clearlooks doesn't fit in as well, but it doesn't make anything crash, either.

The real solution, though, is to come up with some sort of common widget theme standard so that GTK+ and Qt/KDE apps can use the same theme with ease. I have heard people talk about such things, but I have never seen anything actually happen.

It did happen from the Qt side. Qt apps will use the active Gtk style under Gnome. They look like Gtk apps. The reverse isn't true, Gtk apps can not use the active Qt style.

It's just sad that Gtk does not return the favor here.

[KAMiKAZOW]

Judging from the screenshot, they did a nice job with the window decorations, but the widget style is still awful.

As I already wrote: That's Ubuntu and not how GNOME looks by default.

[KAMiKAZOW]

http://library.gnome.org/misc/releas...ilus.png.en_GB

GNOME still has broken icon placement?
This is the top-most reason why I can't stand to use GNOME as desktop. It throws icons all over the place with different sizes etc.
I like to use various GTK/GNOME apps (GIMP for example), though.

[waucka]

Are there any plans of providing a way for Gtk apps to not look like ass on KDE? Like the native Gtk look of Qt apps when ran under Gnome?

Well, you can tell KDE to make GTK+ apps use the QtCurve style. That will make them fit in pretty well. Granted, it might make some applications crash (at least on Ubuntu), but at least they will look pretty while doing so. Clearlooks doesn't fit in as well, but it doesn't make anything crash, either.

The real solution, though, is to come up with some sort of common widget theme standard so that GTK+ and Qt/KDE apps can use the same theme with ease. I have heard people talk about such things, but I have never seen anything actually happen.

[RealNC]

Judging from the screenshot, they did a nice job with the window decorations, but the widget style is still awful. At least there are alternative styles available.