Comment 0 for bug 36256

Steps to repeat bug.

Log in to KDE. Go to System Settings--->Personal--->Appearance--->GTK Styles
and Fonts.

Make these changes:

GTK Styles: Use my KDE style in GTK applications

&

GTK Fonts: Use my KDE fonts in GTK applications.

Click on "Apply"

Close System Settings window and go on about your work. Lauch Firefox,
Thunderbird and some GTK2 applications and you'll find they nicely inherit the
KDE look and feel.

But often times you will find the settings did not take. Other times they will
take.

Sometimes logging off KDE and logging back in locks them in.

But the worst part about gtk2-engines-gtk-qt is that after having utilized them
in KDE (i.e. run some GTK2 apps or Firefox) you will find that later use of
GNOME is virtually impossible.

To continue...

Log off KDE and log into GNOME.

See splash screen as normal.

Then see gnome-panel try to start and then immediately crash.

That process repeats itself indefinently and eventually stops, giving you a
blank screen.

All you can do then is kill X (sometimes that doesn't work either and you have
to restart your computer) and log back into KDE and pretend GNOME doesn't exist. :-)

I actually like both GNOME and KDE and use both extensively but untill this gets
fixed that's going to be impossible.

gtk2-engines-gtk-qt worked far better in hoary than in breezy.