said William Morder via tde-users: | You may want to check out these threads: | "how to force TDE colors in non-TDE apps?" | and especially the sequel: | "how to force TDE colors in non-TDE apps? SOLVED" | 2021-01-18 or thereabouts | (an exchange mostly between E.Liddell and myself). | | But here is the gist of it: | ####### | I stumbled on a site: | https://askubuntu.com/questions/706528/qt-apps-stopped-inheriting-gtk-th |emes/748186#748186 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201111174652/https://askubuntu.com/questio |ns/706528/qt-apps-stopped-inheriting-gtk-themes/748186#748186 wherein are | unlocked the mysteries of qt5ct in a single line. | | *NOTE that other pages gave information which was either contradictory | or at least unclear, leaving me frustrated and unable to figure out | where in /home/<USER>/.profile to insert the line for qt. So for other | Trinity users out there who may want to use the look of their TDE and | color outside the lines when using non-TDE apps, this is what actually | worked for me.* | | After installing qt5ct and whatever other packages (more for | developers), run this command: | sudo sh -c "echo 'export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=gtk2' >> /etc/environment" | | Open qt5ct and choose according to personal preferences, then reboot. | The user will now have TDE colors and themes in non-TDE applications. It | will also run gtk2 and gtk3, and lots of other good stuff. It seems like | it will work for other desktops, as well, as others say. | | For most users, this will probably take care of their needs. | ####### | | It sounds like this is what you're looking for. E.Liddell pointed me in | this direction, and the rest I nicked from the webpage mentioned above. | | I hope this helps! Even worse, in my estimation, is some of the crap the Gnomes have instituted, by far the worst being the now-you-see-it, now-you-dont scrollbar-tab thingy. I'm highly in favor of people being able to make their desktops and application behavior into whatever they want it to be, but forcing this as an unchangable default is beyond awful. I've spent many hours trying to make it go away, but best I can tell there's no escaping it. It's one of the reasons I tried the pretty awful digiKam over the once great gThumb. That's perhaps the biggest problem with enthusiast open source: sometimes an application is done, full stop. It does what it was designed to do, and does it well. All that remains is maintenance and adding such features (support for new file formats and the like) as become appropriate. But that's not why a lot of developers got into it, which was "look at how cool this thing I made is." Which makes it all the sadder that there are so many great GTK applications, while the GTK desktop is no improvement on anything, ever. In terms of UI, it's not as good as Windows 3.0. While the KDE developers went off en masse to the fever swamps, even though they had it right with KDE3, instead of polishing KDE3 and developing a range of excellent applications. It's insane, but it comes with the enthusuast developer territory. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/ ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
