GTK themes doesn't work.

[tracklv]

Applications are ugly. (Firefox/Gajim/Pidgin)
kubuntu 8.04 alpha 2
gtk-qt-engine are installed but i cant change theme :(

[Maxim Levitsky (maximlevitsky)]

I confirm this.

I tried to change theme in gtk-qt config page in system-settings, doesn't work.
I even installed gnome-control-center, and tried to change theme there.
Funny though the applet that changes the theme, does change its appearance,
but other applications' look doesn't change.

Same behavior happens with normal and non-root applications.

I am running kubuntu hardy on the system, and it was updated from feisty.

I tried to add a new user, and log in as this user, and I got same results.

[Andreas Simon (andreas-w-simon)]

Yes, GTK+ themes seem to not apply under KDE currently. We only get the rather ugly default unthemed GTK+ look.
GTK+ Themes work fine under Gnome through.

[tracklv (track-lv)]

agree

[cestuila (cestuila)]

idem

[Eric Schaffner (eric-ericschaffner)]

There's a temporary workaround you can use:

(1) Install a GTK theme like QtCurve. A default Kubuntu install will only have Raleigh (unpleasing) and QtGTK (doesn't work).

(2) Run gtk-chtheme (in Universe) and select the new theme.

Hope this helps.

[Maxim Levitsky (maximlevitsky)]

Well, wonderful!

I installed gtk-chtheme, and I was able to set all
GTK themes (Including QT, but since I installed QtCurve, and I like it more)
Especially I like its settings (everything is customizable)

Only thing to mention, is that gtk-chtheme sometimes crashes.

Now we need to know

1) whenever the Raleigh is set by default when installing kubuntu.
2) why gnome-control-center doesn't work
3) why QTGTK doesn't change the theme.

Thanks for little Christmas present :-)

[Bruno (bruno666-666)]

Here's another workaround :

mv .gtkrc-2.0-kde .gtkrc-2.0

[Andreas Simon (andreas-w-simon)]

Changing the status to "confirm' because several people can reproduce this issue

[Christian Schürer-Waldheim (quincunx)]

Thanks, Bruno, for the hint. But I think it's better to link the file:

ln -s .gtkrc-2.0-kde .gtkrc-2.0

This way changes should be updated automatically.

[YorTheGreat (jord-swart)]

I can confirm the above solution fixes the issue. Fact remains that this should somehow be updated/included in the package so people won't run into it when installing hardy.

I can understand people want to promote KDE packages, but when you need the Gnome ones, you don't want them to look that ugly, now do you?

[birdflesh (birdflesh)]

Fixed somehow, with one of the latest updates.

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

Is this with KDE 3.5 or 4?
gtk-qt-engine won't work with KDE4 (see bug 188415).
According to the last comment, I'm marking it "Fix released". Please reopen it and add more information, in case there's still a problem.