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Sunday, April 3rd 2005, 12:25pm

Look and feel inconsistancies

Hello,

I'm having a problem with the look of KDE when using Synaptic (and some other software like GuardDog). Here's a screenshot

Any idea how to solve those? So far KDE has been all great these are the only quirks i have left.

This post has been edited 2 times, last edit by "Ilici" (Apr 3rd 2005, 12:28pm)


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Sunday, April 3rd 2005, 2:16pm

RE: Look and feel inconsistancies

Isn't that Synaptic program based on Gtk+?

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Sunday, April 3rd 2005, 4:31pm

RE: Look and feel inconsistancies

I think it is, but other GTK+ software does nto have the problem. Also GuardDog (not sure which toolkit it's based on) also shows the same problem. I have the GTK-QT theme engine installed and my GTK+ programs look fine. In GuardDog i've seen that though i've changed my icon theme it still uses the old icons, so i'm inclined to think it isn't responding to my theme change.

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Sunday, April 3rd 2005, 5:01pm

If synaptic uses custom controls (I think the checkboxes in the list that can have different colors are custom controls), then it's most likely that the GTK-Qt theme engine is not able to apply the correct theme. Most likely, those controls have their own paint routine.

Edit:
This is a problem that you should mention to these application developers.

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Sunday, April 3rd 2005, 5:42pm

RE: Look and feel inconsistancies

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Originally posted by Ilici
Also GuardDog (not sure which toolkit it's based on) also shows the same problem. [...] In GuardDog i've seen that though i've changed my icon theme it still uses the old icons, so i'm inclined to think it isn't responding to my theme change.

GuardDog uses KDE libraries, but it seems that it uses custom icons that aren't affected by themes.

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Sunday, April 3rd 2005, 9:10pm

RE: Look and feel inconsistancies

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Originally posted by jacek

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Originally posted by Ilici
Also GuardDog (not sure which toolkit it's based on) also shows the same problem. [...] In GuardDog i've seen that though i've changed my icon theme it still uses the old icons, so i'm inclined to think it isn't responding to my theme change.

GuardDog uses KDE libraries, but it seems that it uses custom icons that aren't affected by themes.


It seems also to use custom widget themes i guess. Any way to change that?

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Sunday, April 3rd 2005, 9:32pm

RE: Look and feel inconsistancies

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It seems also to use custom widget themes i guess. Any way to change that?

If you run this program as a root, it uses root's settings.

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Monday, April 4th 2005, 10:30am

RE: Look and feel inconsistancies

Ok, that sounds right. Good idea. Is there a way to copy all my kde settings to the root account?

I've logged in as root in KDE and set up the fonts and such, and now Guard Dog looks fine. Thanks for the info.

This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "Ilici" (Apr 4th 2005, 2:17pm)