Qt based apps look and feel is not quite right

[Vishal Rao]

I'm running an updated Loki (beta 2) install and have installed some Qt based apps such as VLC and QBittorrent.

By default they don't look as good (a bit off) as they could.

I searched online and found a couple of links, the first is a stackexchange answer that suggests to set QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE=gtk in /etc/environment

See http://elementaryos.stackexchange.com/questions/1240/how-to-set-qt-style-to-default

and the second is to change a gconf setting:

See https://bugs.launchpad.net/elementaryos/+bug/1074721

The first one seems to help and make the apps look a bit better on Loki.

My question/request is, can the eOS dev team please enable this setting by default, so regular users are not put off (that much) by some popular apps not looking as good as they could?

Some before and after screenshots from my Loki install:

VLC and QBittorrent (before):

https://s12.postimg.org/64eydwtkd/vlc_before.png
https://s12.postimg.org/m03sh7k4t/qbt_before.png

VLC and QBittorrent (after):

https://s12.postimg.org/6350khrql/vlc_after.png
https://s12.postimg.org/gaiyj5okt/qbt_after.png

[Vishal Rao (vishalrao)]

It looks like this is being addressed here http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~elementary-os/elementaryos/default-settings-loki/revision/207

The original stackexchange link I came across here http://elementaryos.stackexchange.com/questions/1240/how-to-set-qt-style-to-default asks about a Qt file dialog issue where it seems to pick the Windows style rather than for linux, not sure if setting this environment variable helps but at least this seems to be a step in the right place :-)

Thank you to the devs!