gtk apps using kde style have no focus rect on form fields while navigating with tab key

[holger]

Binary package hint: kdebase

Release: 6.10
Codename: edgy

I have this problem in all gtk applications i use(firefox, scite, eclipse). Whenever such an app displays a form to me and i want to cycle through the form's fields by hitting the TAB key, no focus rect is drawed over the current widget.

You can reproduce easily in firefox:
1.) open firefox
2.) open privacy form(CTRL + SHIFT + DEL)
3.) hit tab
You can see that no focus border is drawn over the focused widget.

I have found a workaround:
Go to: system settings > gtk styles & fonts > gtk styles
Check: "Use another style"
Choose: "Raleigh"
With the raleigh style this problem does not exist.
But be warned the look and feel is not so nice with raleigh.

I also confirmed this bug on a new installation on an other hardware.

[Marco Maini (maini10)]

Confirm also in Feisty this problem and your workaround.

[Marco Maini (maini10)]

Thanks for your detailed report.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Sadly, gtk-qt-engine is a quite broken piece of software and has been removed from distribution. (See bug 404930)
Unfortunately this means that the large number of bugs will not be seeing fixes. :(

For now, the best integration option for KDE is the QtCurve style, (gtk2-engines-qtcurve) which offers a theme quite similar to the default Oxygen theme. The configuration module for gtk-qt-engine has been salvaged and is now living in the kcm-gtk package, which will be available and installed by default in Kubuntu 9.10.

Thanks for understanding. This package tried its best, but in the end did not live up to the standards required by anybody who doesn't like looking at a broken Oxygen imitation.