[Gambas-user] Different look and feel

[Benoit Minisini]

On lundi 17 mars 2008, Ron Onstenk wrote:
> On Monday 17 March 2008 13:44, Ron wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have just installed gambas 2.3 from cvs on debian etch with default
> > gnome desktop.
> >
> > The look of the gambas ide dropdown buttons, listview sliders and
> > menubar looks like they are from 1980, while all the gnome software is
> > nice looking.
> > See screenshot with abiword behind gambas ide.
> >
> > What is causing this?
>
> Maybe theme not found.
>
> > Is something missing during compile time?
>
> Could be, the IDE is build in the install phase.
> When the themes are not found just in time.
>
> > Can someone please point me in the right direction where to look to fix
> > this, my programs look so old-fashioned now.
> > I had gambas installed before on different distro and that looked great,
>
> with Gnome or KDE?
>
> > so I know it can be done.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ron.
>
> I do see 2 problems here.
> You have icons from KDE and Gnome mixed in the IDE
> The font in the project TreeView and menubar looks strange
> compared to ABI word menubar.
>
> As sugested by someone to use qtconfig sounds strange to me
> when gnome is the default install, or is KDE also present on the box.
> Second the purpose of qtconfig, as far I know, is to let the gnome
> apps use the KDE desktop environment for the style as far as posible.
>

No. qtconfig, as its name says, configures the qt library, by making 
a .qt/qtrc file in the user home directory.

As for the mix of GNOME and KDE icons, it is just the Gambas stock icons that 
do not detect GNOME for a reason I don't know. The detection algorithm is the 
one used by xdg-utils freedesktop.org scripts: if there is a 
GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID environmental variable set, then the Gnome iconset 
is used. Otherwise, the Crystal SVG (Qt) one is used.

Regards,

-- 
Benoit Minisini