GTK

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Lionel Laratte wrote:

> I followed the GTK thread this morning with great interest.  I have 
> this issue.  I installed XFce4 on a friend's laptop and, since he had 
> KDE on it first, everything has the KDE themes and looks like KDE.  
> Any idea how to change this so that GTK is the default.  Thanks.
>
if apps "look like kde" then they are kde/qt apps and thus cannot use 
gtk's theming capabilities.  there are some "metathemes" floating out 
there that contain similar-looking gtk and qt/kde themes, but personally 
i don't like them all that much.  there are ongoing efforts to allow 
kde/qt to use gtk's theme engines and vice versa, but nothing usable 
yet, iirc.

the bottom line: if you want all your apps to look the same in xfce, 
don't run kde apps.  install and run their gtk2/gnome2 counterparts, if 
available.

    -brian