After update to KDE 4.6.1 from 4.6.0 any KDE application executed with sudo or kdesudo looks ugly

[César Sánchez Alonso]

After update to KDE 4.6.1 from 4.6.0 any KDE application executed with sudo or kdesudo looks ugly. QT seems not being taking oxygen theme.

qtconfig gave me an idea:

"You can select the default GUI Style from the drop down list and customize the colors.
Any GUI Style plugins in your plugin path will automatically be added to the list of built-in Qt styles. (See the Library Paths tab for information on adding new plugin paths.)"

It seems that qt take a diferent path if is executed with sudo than if it is executed like a normal user.

I did a workarround to repair this.

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/kde4/plugins/styles/ /usr/share/qt4/plugins/

Probe if running any KDE application with sudo or kdesudo looks well, if not, do as follows:

sudo apt-get install qt4-qtconfig

sudo qtconfig

Select GUI Style ---choose----> Oxygen

File Save and close.

HTH

[Vladimir Bohinc (homunkulus)]

Well this doesn't work for me, qtconfig-qt4 doesn't even list Oxygen so it can't be set, well any ideas...

[avlas (avlas)]

Thanks, I had the same problem and your workaround worked perfectly!

[Vladimir Bohinc (homunkulus)]

Well it turns out this workaround did work, but I had to delete Trolttech.conf (/root/.config) and then set the theme.

[kramerstefan (kramerstefan-web)]

Same problem here & the workaround did work after deleting Trolltech.conf from /root/.config.

Anyway, I guess the symbolic link will be removed if Qt packages are updated... Somebody should find a proper solution for this issue to replace the workaround.

[César Sánchez Alonso (csalinux)]

Of course, the ideal thing is to find the error code and commit a fix.

Avoid remove files. Just rename what you want to can restore it as and when you want and need.

The bug status still is: New , undecided and unasigned.

[Steven Sroka (lin-unix)]

This bug is confirmed upstream. openSUSE is also dealing with this.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656144

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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199209
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165268
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514056

Note some of the workarounds in the above bug reports. People think it's a dbus issue.

[Philippe Piquer (philippep62)]

Solved in 4.6.2 :)

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