Bug 250504 – x11-themes/gtk-chtheme patch to work with qgtkstyle

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Alex Alexander (RETIRED) 2008-12-10 11:49:43 UTC]

qgtkstyle is a QT4 style that uses the current GTK theme. 

When gtk-chtheme changes your theme, it misses an important variable that is needed by qgtkstyle in ~/.gtkrc-2.0, gtk-theme-name = "NAME".

I am attaching a patch and new ebuild for gtk-chtheme that makes it add the required variable in .gtkrc-2.0 when you select a theme.

Note that for this to work you also need to add

export GTK2_RC_FILES="`pwd`/.gtkrc-2.0"

in /etc/profile or similar. I've added the necessary ewarns in the ebuild...

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install qgtkstyle from voyageur overlay
2. run qtconfig
3. if the proper variables are not set and you select the GTK style, you get the error "QGtkStyle cannot be used together with the GTK_Qt engine."
Actual Results:  
QT4 prints the error "QGtkStyle cannot be used together with the GTK_Qt engine." and switches to the default GTK theme (clearlooks for me).

Expected Results:  
QT4 should use the selected GTK theme

[Comment 1 Alex Alexander (RETIRED) 2008-12-10 11:51:24 UTC]

Created attachment 174851 [details, diff]
patch that makes gtk-chtheme add 'gtk-theme-name = NAME' in gtkrc-2.0

[Comment 2 Alex Alexander (RETIRED) 2008-12-10 11:52:14 UTC]

Created attachment 174853 [details]
updated ebuild that uses previous patch

[Comment 3 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2008-12-11 00:28:44 UTC]

any upstream bug to refer to ?

[Comment 4 Alex Alexander (RETIRED) 2008-12-11 08:57:58 UTC]

I've emailed the patch and fix details to the gtk-chtheme author. I'll update this bug when I get a response.

[Comment 5 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2009-02-25 23:57:39 UTC]

the fix didn't look so crazy after all so I added it to 0.3.1-r2. Thanks for the patch.