Howto:gtk/gnome Apps Under Kde

Title:“GTK apps and it's settings under KDE environment.”
Description:fonts, icons, themes .... work around

http://wiki.suselinuxsupport.de/wikka.php?...omeAppsunderKDE

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I like the article, it helped me a lot

Very useful article, but I had some problems using gnome-settings-daemon, otherwise everything was OK. I am using SUSE 9.3 Pro.

gnome-settings-daemon was screwing fonts on my system (I would get really BIG fonts in KDE), and gkrellm always changed skin to default on startup, so I had to do something about it. After running "strace gimp 2> trace.txt", and examining the trace.txt I found out this:

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lstat64("/etc/opt/gnome/gtk-2.0/gtkrc", 0xbfffe570) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/etc/opt/gnome/gtk-2.0/gtkrc.en_US", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/etc/opt/gnome/gtk-2.0/gtkrc.en", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
lstat64("/home/witchdoc/.gtkrc-2.0-qtengine", 0xbfffe570) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/home/witchdoc/.gtkrc-2.0-qtengine.en_US", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/home/witchdoc/.gtkrc-2.0-qtengine.en", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
lstat64("/home/witchdoc/.kde/share/config/gtkrc", 0xbfffe570) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/home/witchdoc/.kde/share/config/gtkrc.en_US", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/home/witchdoc/.kde/share/config/gtkrc.en", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
lstat64("/home/witchdoc/.gimp-2.2/themerc", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=318, ...}) = 0
open("/home/witchdoc/.gimp-2.2/themerc", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 4

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It seems that gimp was looking for one of those configuration files, so I used gtk-chtheme (forgot where I downloaded it from, sorry. Do some googling) to choose theme. gtk-chtheme will make ".gtkrc-2.0" file in your home directory, so you just need to make a link named ".gtkrc-2.0-qtengine" to it (ln -s .gtkrc-2.0 .gtkrc-2.0-qtengine), and it seems to work

Also, for gtk-1.x, you will want to make ".gtkrc" in your home dir containing path to gtkrc you want to use (e.g. "include /opt/gnome/share/themes/Industrial/gtk/gtkrc" )

I suppose that this can be a lot easier to configure... *sigh*

Would it be possible to add something to this HOWTO covering DPI settings in Firefox? The problem is, although FF is a GTK application, it uses its own display size calculations which can result in FF displayed fonts - including the menus and dialogs, not just the web display - being different to other GTK applications. The fix is to set a FF config value so that it matches the physical display resolution of the screen (dots per inch).

It's explained here: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Layout.css.dpi

(The config variable name changed from FF1.5 to FF2.0)

Cheers,
-nick