QtCurve style is not remembered

[laksdjfaasdf]

Binary package hint: systemsettings-kde4

Hardy upgraded to Intrepid with current updates 20081010:

Version:
ii systemsettings 4:4.1.2-0ubuntu6
ii kde-style-qtcurve 0.59.3-1ubuntu1 This is a set of widget styles for KDE3 based apps
ii kde4-style-qtcurve 0.59.3-0ubuntu2 Unified widget style for KDE and GTK+ - plain Qt 4 version
ii kde4-style-qtcurve-kdeconfig 0.59.3-0ubuntu2

Problem:

When choosing QtCurve for KDE4 in systemsettings, QtCurve is set correctly. But after logging out and in again, the default KDE4 Oxygen style is used for applications again.

In KDE3 and Gtk2 applications, QtCurve is remembered.

[ZaWertun (zawertun)]

Same symptoms.
I'll try to update QtCurve the most recent version.

[laksdjfaasdf (laksdjfaasdf)]

I compiled version KDE 4 0.59.6 but that didn't help. QtCurve theme was replaced after logging out and loging in again....

[luisromangz (luisromangz)]

Here it happens the same way, and I think it is important to say that it doesn't happen with other styles.

[laksdjfaasdf (laksdjfaasdf)]

The author of QtCurve has the answer to that problem (Re: QtCurve not remembered, 20th October)

http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/QtCurve+(KDE4%2C+KDE3%2C+%26+Gtk2+Theme)?content=40492

The easiest solution in my point of view is to change/add the following entry

[General]
...
widgetStyle=QtCurve

in the file

~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals

Or globally as described in the post of CraigD

[laksdjfaasdf (laksdjfaasdf)]

Is it possible to fix that problem before Intrepid comes out?

[OmniUni (omniuni)]

I am having this problem as well. I will follow the link for the fix, but it is rather annoying. I do hope you can fix it before Intrepid release.

[Björn Lindh (probablyx)]

This bug affects Intrepid too...

[Vlad Lungeanu (drvladl)]

A simple solution (read: GUI): just change the style to something different than both Oxygen and QTcurve, apply, then change it again to QTcurve.

[ZaWertun (zawertun)]

This solution isn't working for me. Variants with login\logout isn't working either.

[Aron Schatz (aronschatz)]

The theme switch does not work for me, as well.

I'll try the file edit.

But these kind of things should be caught and fixed quickly.

[William Hood (william-a-hood)]

I can confirm this on a clean (non-upgrade) install of Kubuntu Intrepid 64-bit, and I think the problem may be the casing of how it saves the theme in use. I went to follow the edit instructions above, and opened ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals. When I did, I saw the following line in the [General] section already there:

widgetStyle=qtcurve

I edited the line to have the proper case:

widgetStyle=QtCurve

When I logged out and logged back in, the QtCurve theme was remembered.

Can anyone else confirm this work-around? This may turn out to be a quick fix (might be the one of the QtCurve packages, not the systemsettings package, but that's for the Kubuntu people to work out).

[ZaWertun (zawertun)]

Now QtCurve theme applied after logout\restart.
Thanks ! =-)

[Aron Schatz (aronschatz)]

I'm having additional problems. Speedcrunch doesn't even bother to use QtCurve even though it is set.

K3b uses the wrong colors for it.

Dolphin seems to work fine. I've attached a screenshot to detail what I mean.

[Xwang (xwang1976)]

I confirm the bug on kubuntu 8.10 with kde 4.1.4.
In order to have QtCurve remembered I had to manually modify the kdeglobals file changing qtcurve in QtCurve.
Please fix the problem because this is just a workaround (every user which want to use QtCurve has to do that and the workaround must be repeated every time the style is changed using systemsettings).
Thank you,
Xwang

[samuel782 (sscharrer)]

The bug also applies to Kubuntu Jaunty Alpha 3 (fresh install).

I installed QtCurve from the apt packages "kde4-style-qtcurve-kdeconfig", "gtk2-engines-qtcurve").

Only here, there doesn't seem to be a "widgetStyle" line in the file ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals at all. Adding it manually seems to fix the problem though (at least temporarily).

[jrdnyquist (jody-cltonline)]

The bug also applies to Kubuntu Jaunty Beta and 4.2.2 updates as of 4/2/2009 (fresh install).

If you choose the "QtCurve" widget style under System Settings -> Appearance -> Style -> Widget Style...

This adds "widgetStyle=qtcurve" under [General] in ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals

If you then log out and back in, KDE4 overwrites ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals and removes "widgetStyle=qtcurve" under [General]

This means Firefox fonts will look terrible until this bug is fixed.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Triaged is better than confirmed.

[Samat Jain (tamasrepus)]

CraigD (QtCurve's developer) has found what's going on here (comment quoted below):

This is a KUbuntu problem.

The problem is that KUbuntu sets QtCurve as its default KDE3, and Oxygen the default KDE4 theme.

When you run a KDE3 app, it sees that you have QtCurve set - but because this is also the default, it removes the entry from the kdeglobals config file.

So, when you now start a KDE4 app, the style has been set back to the default - oxygen.

To work-around this, you can use QtCurve's config dialog and select 'Export theme...' from its menu button. This will create a file named 'qtc_????.themerc' Then just copy this file to ~/.kde/share/apps/kstyle/themes/ Run 'kbuildsycoca4', then re-run kcmshell4 style - and select your new style (it should appear as its own entry in the main style selector)

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

This should be fixed now with the latest updates in 9.04. (QtCurve is no longer set as the default KDE3 theme) Please test :)

[William Hood (william-a-hood)]

This does appear to now be fixed on my Kubuntu Jaunty system. (Finally)

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Great!