Comments on: Theme GNOME Apps Running in KDE 4.0

By: Suramya’s Blog » Stop Gnome Applications from looking ugly in KDE4

Suramya’s Blog » Stop Gnome Applications from looking ugly in KDE4 — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:41:58 +0000

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By: Paulo Cesar

Paulo Cesar — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:34:58 +0000

ijanos: man, we are talking about kde4 here…

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:50:53 +0000

felipe:
Thanks! Your solution works great.

By: gavintlgold

gavintlgold — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 04:04:53 +0000

@Guille:

I’m not sure about a theme switcher, but Domino is an excellent customizable theme engine for KDE that’s more like GNOME themes, if you just don’t like the default (which IS ugly). To customize it after install (you have to compile), run “kcontrol” (you may have to install it first). All the settings for kde can be changed through there if you’re running in GNOME.

Domino:
http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=42804

Domino Debian pkg (no idea if it works for Ubuntu or not, haven’t tried it at all):
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Domino+Debian+package?content=60897

By: Guille

Guille — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:35:35 +0000

Oh, great! Can this be done from the other side? I mean, is there any way to execute in Gnome desktop a KDE app with GTK look and feel?

By: ijanos

ijanos — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:18:48 +0000

ps: it won’t affect your icon settings, so you have to add manually the following line to your ~/.gtkrc-2.0

gtk-icon-theme-name = “Tango”

By: ijanos

ijanos — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:37:37 +0000

Install the gtk-theme-switch package, its in universe. Then use the gtk-theme-switch2 program to change your default gtk2 skin. It will be permanent and there’s no need to run gnome-settings-daemon.

By: Jonas

Jonas — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:33:57 +0000

Well, if it isn’t saved using the sessions mechanism (you usually don’t need a GUI to setup autostart programs in KDE. The programs running when you logout are saved and launched automatically on next login unless you disable that mechanism) you could try creating a bash-script in the Autostart folder.

Note that I have only tried this in KDE3.x so it may work differently in version 4. Anyhow, worth a try…

Simple enough script:

#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/gnome-settings-daemon &

Change path if necessary. I have no gnome-stuff on my computer so no idea where its binaries are.

Save the script in ~/.kde/Autostart

and make sure it is executable, and it should run on every login. .kde may be .kde4 on a KDE4 desktop though, but that’s easy enough to find out.

By: felipe

felipe — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:59:53 +0000

Hi Tom

There’s still no GUI (that I know of) but you can always throw a specially crafted desktop file info kde’s autostart directory.

You find an example here (sorry, Italian ony): http://pollycoke.net/2008/01/12/sistemare-laspetto-delle-applicazioni-gnome-in-kde-4/