Re: Gnome apps in KDE

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>]

I believe KDE has a way of setting GTK themes, which might explain the
gtkrc-kde files.

On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 23:35, Jay DeKing wrote:
> On Friday 20 September 2002 04:26 pm, Ben FrantzDale honored me with this 
> communique:
> > Your ~/.gtkrc file should be the file you are looking for.
> >
> > --Ben
> >
> > On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 12:02, Jay DeKing wrote:
> > > I'm cross-posting this to Gnome and KDE since both wm's are involved.
> > >
> > > When I run Gnome-based apps in KDE, they have the grey "Gradient" theme
> > > (from old Gnome), which makes them hard to read at the top of the dialog
> > > box - small black text on a dark grey background - especially if it is a
> > > tall dialog. I cannot figure out where they are getting this setting;
> > > when I boot into Gnome, I don't have the Gradient theme chosen (though I
> > > did at one time, about a year and a half ago) and the same apps do not
> > > display in gradient form; nor do they when logged in as root under KDE.
> > > Changing my Gnome theme does not seem to affect the theme used by Gnome
> > > apps under KDE
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Jay aka "Florida Yankee"
> > > _______________________________________________
> 
> Thanks Ben. I found the following based on your tip:
>  1) that my .gtkrc sourced two other .gtkrc files located in far off 
> subdirectories (and had no other commands in it)
>  2) that root did not possess a .gtkrc file at all, only a .gtkrc-kde file
>  3) that my .gtkrc-kde differed drastically from the one possessed by root, 
> which was much sparser and leaner
> 
> So what I did was:
>  1) renamed my .gtkrc and .gtkrc-kde files to _gtkrc and _gtkrc-kde, so I 
> could restore them in case of gross error
>  2) as root, copied /root/.gtkrc-kde to my normal user home directory and set 
> the proper ownership and group properties
>  3) popped back to normal user status and tried a number of Gnome apps. All 
> worked fine, none had the Gradient theme, all had the boring flat default 
> theme - but they were legible.
> 
> Many Thanks,
> Jay
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