Mailing List Archive: KDE applications gui

KDE applications gui

Oct 11, 2004, 11:14 PM

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I'm a Gnome user trying to use programs made for KDE, like k3b,
kdevelop and quanta.

My main problem with them is the gui, I find the fonts way too ugly,
the buttons way too roundy, the toolbars even worse. Everything is too
much painful to look at.

Is there a way to solve it, change that fugly default theme? Any way
that doesn't include downloading a whole desktop and spending hours
compiling it is welcome.

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Re: KDE applications gui [ In reply to ]

neil at digimed

Oct 12, 2004, 12:11 AM

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On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 02:14:11 -0400, Bruno Laturner wrote:

> My main problem with them is the gui, I find the fonts way too ugly,
> the buttons way too roundy, the toolbars even worse. Everything is too
> much painful to look at.

You should be able to run kcontrol, the KDE Control Centre, from a
terminal in GNOME. kcontrol is part of kdebase.

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Re: KDE applications gui [ In reply to ]

motub at planet

Oct 12, 2004, 2:59 AM

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Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 02:14:11 -0400, Bruno Laturner wrote:
>
>
>>My main problem with them is the gui, I find the fonts way too ugly,
>>the buttons way too roundy, the toolbars even worse. Everything is too
>>much painful to look at.
>
>
> You should be able to run kcontrol, the KDE Control Centre, from a
> terminal in GNOME. kcontrol is part of kdebase.
>
>

If you don't have kdebase either (it's not necessarily necessary, as
kdelibs is, and on my system, while kcontrol does open, it won't open
any modules, so it's not useful atm-- maybe I need to reemerge it), you
can also go the manual route and edit the config files located in your
${HOME}$ folder for either the individual program or KDE generally.

The menu fonts in K3b were waaay too big, so I edited
~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals to change the font and reduce its size.
For programs that don't read this file to set their appearance, editing
~/.qt/qtrc may help.

This will only help you with fonts, and maybe colors (I've never
attempted to edit those)-- there is no help for "buttons way too roundy,
toolbars even worse" (I know how you feel, I find KDE hideous as well,
that's why I don't use it). That's just the way KDE and apps designed to
integrate into the KDE environment are designed to look, afaict, so it's
something that we have to live with if we are going to use such apps.

Hope this helps,
Holly

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Re: KDE applications gui [ In reply to ]

neil at digimed

Oct 12, 2004, 3:19 AM

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On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 11:59:56 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote:

> This will only help you with fonts, and maybe colors (I've never
> attempted to edit those)-- there is no help for "buttons way too
> roundy, toolbars even worse"

Change the icon set. I don't like the default button either, but find
the Slick set quite reasonable.

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Re: KDE applications gui [ In reply to ]

T.Six at gmx

Oct 12, 2004, 9:18 AM

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Holly Bostick wrote, On 12.10.2004 11:59:

> The menu fonts in K3b were waaay too big, so I edited
> ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals to change the font and reduce its size.
> For programs that don't read this file to set their appearance, editing
> ~/.qt/qtrc may help.

> Hope this helps,
> Holly

try:

qtconfig

bye Thilo

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